Quiz 1

Adsorption Process whereby particles adhere to a solid surface, usually forming a thin film

Arbitrary Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system

Bolus dose An initial high dose of a drug, which increases its concentration in the blood so that it immediately has full

Cadaster A register of information about the ownership, value and location of real estate

Census Official count or survey of a population

Chirality A property of a molecule or anything else used to describe whether or not it is identical to its mirror image

Cognition The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses

Concatenate To link things together in a chain or series

Contamination The action of making something impure through pollution or poisoning

Cumbersome Slow or complicated, and therefore inefficient

Dissemination The spreading of something (usually information)

Dissipation The act whereby energy becomes lost or unusable

Egress The action of going out of or leaving a place

Evaporation The transition from a liquid to a gaseous state

Excipients All ingredients in a pharmaceutical product that are not the active substance

Expropriation The right for the government to aquire property in order to meet public interests

Flashover The point during a fire in which all flammable surfaces start to burn

Hops A crop that is used to impart a particular flavor profile to beer

Intrinsic value The value of something as determined through fundamental analysis

Kinetic energy The energy possessed by an object because of its motion

Laminar flow A flow in parallel layers, with no disruption between those layers

Legislative Having the power to make laws

Leverage To take advantage of

Mitigation The reduction, beforehand, of the negative consequences of something

Pharmacokinetics The science of determining what happens to a drug after it enters the body

Pneumatics Mechanical systems that are powered by compressed gases.

Potential energy The energy possessed by an object because of its position

Scaffold A tempory structure on the outside of a building, which is used by workmen while constructing, repairing or cleaning the building itself

Short sale Sale of an asset or stock the seller does not own

Strain The response of a system to an applied stress

Sublimation The direct transition from a gaseous to a solid state

Tenancy Legal possession of land or property as a tenant

Thermal inertia The degree of slowness with which the temperature of a body approaches the temperature of its surroundings

Usufruct The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property

Viscosity A measure of resistance in a fluid

Zwitterion An ion that has both a positive and a negative charge

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