Chemistry
Across
- 2. Compromises only about 0.05% of the earth's crust by mass but easily obtained
- 6. The use of pesticides and insecticides are types of ____ control to protect food crops from unwanted pests or insects
- 7. Two or more forms of the same element that differ in properties but exist in the same physical state
- 11. nitrogen ____ is the process of organisms to convert atmospheric nitrogen to a form that can be used by plants
- 12. The result of heating white phosphorous to about 300C in the absence of air
- 13. The antibacterial action of hydrogen peroxide is due to highly reactive molecules called
- 14. Makes up 78% of the volume of air
- 15. the most important commercial method of preparing hydrogen in the US
- 17. The most abundant element in the universe
- 18. The movement of nitrogen and nitrogen compounds from the air to the soil and back forms this cycle
- 19. A colorless gas with a characteristic pungent smell
Down
- 1. Nitrogen is found in all living things in the form of ___ and nucleic acids
- 3. Ammonium ____ was commonly used as smelling salts to revive someone who has fainted
- 4. Addition of hydrogen to double (or triple) bonds
- 5. The ammonia used for fertilizer production is synthesized by the ____ process
- 6. A substance used to speed up a chemical reaction
- 8. Is a process in which plants replenish oxygen in Earth's atmosphere
- 9. Fool's gold
- 10. Most abundant element in earth's crust
- 16. The ____process is when superheated water injected into the bed of sulfur containing rock through the outermost of three concentric pipes causing sulfur to melt and form a liquid pool