Chemistry Simply DK Flashcards
one of the world’s first recorded chemists, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC in Babylonian Mesopotamia.
Tapputi (or Tapputi-Belatekallim)
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, which he developed with his student Democritus, divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness that exists between the atoms. The Great World System and On Mind.
Leucippus
Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He was a native of Eresos in Lesbos. He is often considered the father of botany for his works on plants. His two surviving botanical works, Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum) and On the Causes of Plants, were an important influence on Renaissance science.
Theoprastus
An Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. Laughing Philosopher.
Democritus
Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. Some evidence suggests deliberate cultivation of cereals, specifically rye, by this culture at Tell Abu Hureyra, the site of earliest evidence of agriculture in the world. The world’s oldest known evidence of the production of bread-like foodstuff has been found and in addition, the oldest known evidence of possible beer-brewing, dating to approximately 13,000 BP, was found in Raqefet Cave on Mount Carmel.
Natufian culture
Mesopotamian goddess of beer and brewing. It is possible that in the first millennium BC she was known under the variant name Kurunnītu, derived from a term referring to a type of high quality beer. She was associated with both positive and negative consequences of the consumption of beer.
Ninkasi
Otherwise known as hulled wheat, name comes from Latin from starch, tetraploid awned wheat. Along with einkorn wheat, one of first crops domesticated in the Near East. One of three farro grains with spelt and einkorn. Triticum dicoccum.
Emmer
Wheat from German for single grain, wild form is triticum boeoticum, and the domesticated form is triticum monococcum. Diploid species of hulled wheat.
Einkorn wheat
Also known as dinkel wheat, it is a hexaploid wheat, which means it has six sets of chromosomes.
Spelt
The liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. contains the sugars, the most important being maltose and maltotriose, that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol.
Wort
What is the soaking of an organic solid, such as leaves, in a liquid (usually water) to extract flavours or to soften it? The specific process of teas being prepared for drinking by leaving the leaves in heated water to release the flavour and nutrients is known as this term.
Steeping
The beer brewing process that separates the mash into clear liquid wort and residual grain. It usually consists of three steps: mashout, recirculation, and sparging. Term comes from German for clarify/clear.
Lautering
Term used for the substance created via distillation
Distillate
Born 801AD Kufa, Iraq: Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist, book entitled Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages gave rise to the birth of cryptanalysis.
Al-Kindi
From Arabic and Ancient Greek for cup/beaker., term for this is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation of liquids?
Alembic
What word is used to refers to the product obtained by sublimation?
Sublimate
An ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids, the main constituents of body fat in humans and other vertebrates, as well as vegetable fat, they are also present in the blood to enable the bidirectional transference of adipose fat and blood glucose from the liver, and are a major component of human skin oils.
Triglyceride
Aggregate (or supramolecular assembly) of surfactant amphipathic lipid molecules dispersed in a liquid, forming a colloidal suspension (also known as associated colloidal system), used for soaps. Comes from Latin for tiny particle.
Micelle
French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt. Had named process after him but superseded by the Solvay porcess. Sea salt and sulfuric acid makes soda ash.
Nicolas Leblanc
ammonia–soda process is the major industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate (soda ash, Na2CO3). The ammonia–soda process was developed into its modern form by which Belgian chemist? The ingredients for this are readily available and inexpensive: salt brine (from inland sources or from the sea) and limestone (from quarries)..
Ernest Solvay
a tool for the cleansing of the body by scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil that was applied before bathing in Ancient Greek and Roman cultures
Strigil
Also known as lye and caustic soda, actual chemical formula
Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)
a container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures, historically made of clay, latin for cross
Crucible
Inorganic compound slaked lime is what name scientifically? Produced when quicklime is mixed with water.
Calcium Hydroxide