Vocabulary November 14, 2014

Question 0

the amount of heat content used or released in a system at constant pressure

Answer 0

enthalpy

Question 1

the process by which a substance absorbs moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution

Answer 1

deliquescence

Question 2

a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system’s thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system

Answer 2

entropy

Question 3

the state of being thick, sticky, and semifluid in consistency, due to internal friction

Answer 3

viscosity

Question 4

the science of food and nourishment

Answer 4

sitiology

Question 5

the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of diseases

Answer 5

nosology

Question 6

the study of decaying organisms over time and how they become fossilized

Answer 6

taphonomy

Question 7

a binary compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative than the halogen

Answer 7

halide

Question 8

an instrument for measuring the pressure acting on a column of fluid, especially one with a U-shaped tube of liquid

Answer 8

manometer

Question 9

the dependence of the output of a system not only on its current input, but also on its history of past inputs

Answer 9

hysteresis