ChemWords (Round 2)

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Across
  1. 3. Element discovered by Marie Curie
  2. 6. Medical masks are made of several layers of which the inner filtering layers usually consist of a fine, melt-blown polymer fleece. Which polymer protects us from the coronavirus?
  3. 8. Dicarboxylic acid which is a precursor for the production of nylon
  4. 9. Extraction method used when the desired compound has a limited solubility in a solvent, and the impurity is insoluble in that solvent
  5. 10. First name of the discoverer of penicillin
  6. 13. The first artificially produced element
  7. 14. Sodium ______ is used in car air bags
  8. 15. Least dense metallic element
  9. 17. Fundamental building blocks of proteins
  10. 18. Term that can precede the words: Mechanics, Dots, Tunnelling, Entanglement
  11. 20. Thermodynamic parameter responsible for spontaneous cooling of a cup of tea
  12. 22. A widely used transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction
  13. 23. Prominent scientist who received the second Noble Prize in Chemistry in 1902, has an esterification and a projection formula named after him
  14. 24. Gas which composes the bubbles in champagne
Down
  1. 1. Sandwich-like organometallic compound of Iron that was "accidentally discovered" thrice.
  2. 2. Addictive alkaloid found in tobacco
  3. 4. Three-dimensional porous silicate
  4. 5. Latin name for Antimony
  5. 7. Laboratory at University of Cambridge where discovery of the electron, neutron, and structure of DNA have taken place
  6. 11. The main product of the Haber-Bosch process
  7. 12. Triatomic allotrope of oxygen
  8. 16. Looking at the sea inspired this Indian researcher to do work that led to a scattering effect named after him (....... effect)
  9. 19. Mineral of a 3d transition metal, commonly known as "Fool's Gold"
  10. 21. Name of the reaction of amino acids and sugars that causes the wonderful smell of fresh bread