Content: 2009 ICEF Career Conference Worksheet

2009 ICEF Career Conference Worksheet

1. Which gas that we used in the Weird Science show is less dense than air_________, which gas is denser than air __________? What is the reason for this?

 2. When you add carbon dioxide to water what acid do you form? _______________
     Carbon dioxide is more soluble under ______________? 

3.  Where is Akzo Nobel located in Illinois? 

4. What does Akzo Nobel make? 

5. Name three careers that can be done with a degree in chemistry? 

6. At the Rhodia Novacare booth you learned that when hair becomes damaged it 
    becomes more ____________________charged (fill in the blank). 

7. A conditioning ingredient is _______________ charged which helps it to repair the
    damaged hair (fill in the blank). Rhodia Novacare booth 

8. At the Stepan booth what kind of experiment did you observe? Endothermic or
    Exothermic. 

9. What is the end product?  

10. Where is the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s Headquarters?

11. Does the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency have its own laboratory? 

12. Can you get a chemistry degree and get a job with the Illinois Environmental     Protection Agency? 

14. Name one of the ingredients involved in the chemistry experiment you observed at   
      the Lyondell booth? 

15. What is Lyondell’s principle product?  

16. What is the largest product that Carus Chemical manufactures? 

17. Does Carus publish magazines? If they do, name one. 

18. Can you work in the chemical industry with only an Associate’s Degree? 

19. The chemical industry has created how much trade surplus over the last ten years? 

20. About how much surface area is there on one gram of zeolite? 

21. Name something you purchased that did not have a crude oil product in it or covering    
      it. 

22. Name three fuels that oil refineries produce? 

23.  Into what applications are Innophos’ products used? 

24. Why do the beads not change color when placed on the dash of most automobiles?   

25.  What does UOP do and who are its clients? 

26.  Describe and explain what happened in UOP’s Abscents experiment.

27.  How many barrels per day (bpd) of propane does Aux Sable Liquid Products produce? (Aux Sable)

28.  Is propane lighter or heavier than air? (Aux Sable)

29.  Can you use a math or science degree in the U.S. Coast Guard? 

30.  Are there engineers in the U.S. Coast Guard? 

BONUS Questions:

1) What is chemistry?

2) In what ways is chemistry unique?

3) Is Psicose a real molecule name?

4) Give an example of a consumer product other than fuel which can be made from
     petroleum.

5) What woman won the Nobel Prize in Science twice?

6) What did Alfred Nobel invent?