{"id":1049079,"date":"2012-12-10T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T11:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/chemistry\/chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-6.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:01:37","slug":"chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chemistry\/chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-6.php","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry World Christmas quiz, day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

And on the sixth day of Christmas my true love brought to me, six geese a-laying topical chemistry questions. \"\"<\/a><\/p>

Right, I hope you’ve rested your brain over the weekends and you’re ready for more. Off we go.<\/p>

Chemists had some stern words for Auntie Beeb (the BBC) and James May of Top Gear<\/em> fame in September. Why?<\/strong><\/p>

In August, Nasa’s rover Curiosity landed on the red planet and started making measurements with many different instruments. What type of instruments can be found in ChemCam?<\/strong><\/p>

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<\/span>On to the answers from yesterday’s quiz<\/a><\/strong> questions<\/p>

The elements that a Southampton PhD student was poisoned with were arsenic and thallium. Investigations are still ongoing. You can read our story here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong><\/p>

GFAJ-1 stood for Give Felisa A Job. Felisa Wolfe-Simon was the lead author on the original Science <\/em>paper<\/a><\/strong> that made the claim that bacteria isolated from Mono Lake in California could metabolise arsenic. You can read more about the arsenic life story here<\/a><\/strong>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> <\/strong>and here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>

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