Final 2014 Flashcards
- Which of the following kind of secondary bonding is most subject to degradation in a water solution?
a. Covalent
b. metallic
c. Van der Waals
d. hydrogen
e. plasma
d. hydrogen
- Which of the following Bravais lattice structures is the closest packing arrangement?
a. body centered cubic
b. orthorhombic
c. hexagonal
d. tetragonal - martensitic
e. simple cubic
c. hexagonal
- Bond lengths are in the range of up to 1 Angstrom. Which of the following is another way of identifying this distance?
a. 10 nanometers
b. 10 micrometers
c. 0.1 nanometers
d. 0.1 micrometers
e. 10 picometers
c. 0.1 nanometers
- Can atoms diffuse in the solid state when the ambient temperature is 100’s of degrees centigrade below the melting temperature of the material?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Only if the material is solubilized
d. Only if the material is a solid solution
e. Only if the material has one single lattice structure
a. Yes
- The weakest of bonds are the van der Waals forces. How can they help hold a solid together?
a. They can act as Velcro, especially with branches in polymeric materials, interlocking together.
b. They can never be strong enough to hold a solid material together,
c. With thousands of them in a solid they can add up to a significant amount of cohesive force at room temperature.
d. They can convert to hydrogen bonds in the presence of water.
e. They can attract chelating agents that increase interatomic bonding.
c. With thousands of them in a solid they can add up to a significant amount of cohesive force at room temperature.
- Which of the following is a term used to descrlbe a chemical attack on tooth structure?
a. Abfraction
b. Abrasion
c. Erosion
d. Elasticization
e. Incineration
c. Erosion
- Which of the following is the best definition of density?
a. Height per unit weight
b. Volume per unit mass
c. Compaction per unit mass
d. Weight per unit mass
e. Mass per unit volume
e. Mass per unit volume
- Which of the following is a result of refractive index mismatch in a composite restorative material between a glass filler and its resin matrix?
a. The material is more opaque.
b. The composite has more flexibility.
c. The composite has more water sorption.
d. The composite is more transparent.
e. The composite is more brittle.
a. The material is more opaque.
- What causes fluorescence?
a. The transmission of light through the material
b. The response to varying intensities of light at one frequency
c. The absorption of light at a lower wavelength causing the output of light at a longer wavelength
d. The absorption of light at a longer wavelength causing the output of light at a shorter wavelength
e. The reflectance of the entire absorption spectrum of a material
c. The absorption of light at a lower wavelength causing the output of light at a longer wavelength
- Which color system is divided into units based on the minimal change that can be perceived?
a. Munsell
b. Mosaic
c. additive mixing
d. L*,a*,b*
e. Ostwald
a. Munsell
- What are the three regions designated on all Pourbaix diagrams for every metallic
element?
a. Passivation, immunity, active corrosion
b. Solid solution, intermetallic compound, amorphous
c. Stress, strain, modulus of elasticity
d. Liquid, liquid/solid combination, solid
e. Occlusal, facial, gingival
a. Passivation, immunity, active corrosion
- Which of the following is a metal or alloy that passivates in normal oral conditions?
a. titanium
b. silica
c. iron-carbide
d. gold-palladium-copper
e. molybdenum-iron
a. titanium
- What is oral galvanism?
a. Pulpal pathosis leading to pulpal necrosis
b. A systemic toxicity resulting from the absorption of the ions of metals in dental
restorations
c. The change in occlusal relationships due to metal restorations
d. A current in the mouth due to different metallic restorations possible causing
pulpal pain
e. Inducing gingival hyperplasia due to metal margins on crowns
d. A current in the mouth due to different metallic restorations possible causing
pulpal pain
- Which Of the following is the most deleterious of the four mechanisms that increase corrosion of an alloy?
a. Heterogeneous composition
b. Inhomogeneous surface
c. Two different metals in the mouth
d. Pits and fissures
e. Integrative resistance
d. Pits and fissures
- What is a limitation on using diametral tensile testing to determine the tensile strength of a material?
a. The material must be viscoelastic.
b. The set material must have a high modulus of elasticity.
c. The unset material must be available in large quantities.
d. The material must be tough.
e. The set material must be wider at the ends than it is in the middle.
b. The set material must have a high modulus of elasticity.
- What kind of mechanical test is stress relaxation?
a. The measurement of the loss of material through wear
b. The determination of the ultimate strength by means of fatigue cycling
c. The measurement of the change in dimension by application of a constant load lower than its ultimate strength
d. The measurement of the change in the stress material exhibits under a constant strain
e. The determination of the proportional limit by means of a constantly increasing load and the offset that allows easy reading of an intersection with a parallel line to the initial slope
d. The measurement of the change in the stress material exhibits under a constant strain
- Which of the following is the best laboratorv test for predicting clinical failure by fracture?
a. Compressive strength
b. Fracture toughness
c. Shear strength
d. Fatigue testing
e. Flexural strength
d. Fatigue testing
- A material demonstrates a lot of permanent deformation when tested with a slow increase in force, but only a little permanent deformation when tested with a quick application of force. Why?
a. The material is having a lattice structure change within the grains during the application of force.
b. The material is going from being tough to being brittle.
c. The material is going from being brittle to tough.
d. The material is viscoelastic.
e. The material is becoming an intermetallic compound at high speeds.
d. The material is viscoelastic.
- What is viscoelasticity?
a. The description of a fluid that is sticky
b. The description of a material that does not follow a normal stress strain curve because of its elastic and fluid properties
c. The description of the mechanical properties of fluid
d. The description of the mechanical properties of a rigid solid
e. The description of a solid material that still has a liquid, or molten, component within the matrix of the grain or crystalline structure
b. The description of a material that does not follow a normal stress strain curve because of its elastic and fluid properties
- For the crown and bridge material represented by line “D”, at what stress will the material fail because the bridge starts to deform permanently?
a. 1,050 MPa
b. 800 MPa
c. 0.12
d. 0.10
e. 0.04
b. 800 MPa
- Which line represents a material with the lowest modulus of elasticity?
a. A b. B c. C d. D e. E - Which line represents a material with the eatest toughness?
a. A b. B c. C d. D e. E - Which line represents a material with the lowest proportional limit?
a. A b. B c. C d. D e. E - Which of the lines represents a material with the highest ultimate strength?
a. A b. B c. C d. D e. E
- E
- D
- C
- A
- What is the basic precept of most of toxicolog?
a. Everything in life poses a risk that is based on the probability that an exposure can take place.
b. Everything in the environment can cause cancer.
c. Everyone is subject to poisons.
d. Everything can be a poison, whether there is an adverse response is dose dependent.
e. Allerglc responses are dose dependent.
d. Everything can be a poison, whether there is an adverse response is dose dependent.
- Which of the following means that the toxic effects are felt in the offspring and not in the individual exposed?
a. Allergenicity
b. Mutageniclty
c. Teratogenicity
d. Carcinogenicity
e. Chronic toxicity
c. Teratogenicity
- What is the major advantage of testing for toxicity in vivo in animals?
a. It has the most consistent with the least variation.
b. It is the most valid.
c. It can be performed with the least cost.
d. It can produce the most rapid results.
e. It can be performed with a small sample size.
b. It is the most valid.
- Which Of the following are tow factors to bc considered when determining the risk while performing a risk analysis on a material or chemical?
a. Information on the web and the benefit of the material or chemical
b. The incidence of the adverse effect and the perception of the population
c. The benefit of the material or chemical and the seriousness of the negative effect
d. The severity of the adverse effect and the percent of the population that could be affected
e. The governmental regulations and the relative benefit of the material
d. The severity of the adverse effect and the percent of the population that could be affected
- What FDA product classification does most of our dental materials qualify under?
a. Class I
b. Class Il
c. Class Ill
d. Class IV
e. Class V
b. Class Il