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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:23 am
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While it's true they didn't play a decisive impact on the battle, large numbers of them were still used.He took the field with more than seventy thousand infantry, ten thousand horse, and seventy-five elephants; while he adversaries had sixty-four thousand infantry, five hundred more horse than he, four hundred elephants, and a hundred and twenty chariots.
The earliest finds of this item come from the Sintashta-Petrovka culture, found north of the Aral Sea and dated to around 2500 BC. The first text describing these items in the ancient Near East recounts how King Hattusili I used them against the Hurrians during the conquest of Hattusa, and a later Hurrian-Hittite text written by one Kikkuli of the Mitanni describes a conditioning regimen lasting 214 days. A ceremonial one of these with bronze plates depicting Achilles receiving armor from his mother was unearthed in an Etruscan burial chamber dated to 530 BC and is now on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their final and unsuccessful use in war was at the Battle of Gaugamela, where the Macedonian lines parted to let them through, whence they could be attacked from behind. For 10 points, what is this single-axled horse-drawn military device, deployed in great numbers at the Battle of Kadesh?
ANSWER: chariots
I'll put the whole set on the packet archive after I've edited it a bit for the mirror next weekend.One mechanism useful in this process includes an intermediate coordination complex containing an alkene and is named for Cossee and Arlman. A cyclic molecule is used in the ring-opening form of this process and includes less shrinkage. This process may be intiated by azo- or peroxy- based initiators, light, or a redox reaction, among other methods. One form of this process begins with a molecule with a double bond and a free radical addition to that double bond. The “living” form of this process allows more control over the end product than the conventional “free radical” type of this process. This process may utilize Ziegler-Natta catalysts, and can be subdivided into initiation, propagation, transfer, and termination steps. For ten points, name this process in which large compounds are formed out of monomers.
ANSWER: Polymerization
Thanks. I think the second clue is ring opening metathesis polymerization, so a worthwhile edit would be to add the word "metathesis" before "form of this process" to reduce the possibility of negs there.Tees-Exe Line wrote:Here's the polymerization tossup:I'll put the whole set on the packet archive after I've edited it a bit for the mirror next weekend.One mechanism useful in this process includes an intermediate coordination complex containing an alkene and is named for Cossee and Arlman. A cyclic molecule is used in the ring-opening form of this process and includes less shrinkage. This process may be intiated by azo- or peroxy- based initiators, light, or a redox reaction, among other methods. One form of this process begins with a molecule with a double bond and a free radical addition to that double bond. The “living” form of this process allows more control over the end product than the conventional “free radical” type of this process. This process may utilize Ziegler-Natta catalysts, and can be subdivided into initiation, propagation, transfer, and termination steps. For ten points, name this process in which large compounds are formed out of monomers.
ANSWER: Polymerization
I wrote the clue to describe ring opening polymerization, which seems to be a different thing than ring opening metathesis polymerization, and the clue does accurately describe what I wanted it to. However, my clue does not distinguish between them, so it would improve the question to do something like starting that sentence with "It's not metathesis, but..."Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat wrote:Thanks. I think the second clue is ring opening metathesis polymerization, so a worthwhile edit would be to add the word "metathesis" before "form of this process" to reduce the possibility of negs there.Tees-Exe Line wrote:Here's the polymerization tossup:I'll put the whole set on the packet archive after I've edited it a bit for the mirror next weekend.One mechanism useful in this process includes an intermediate coordination complex containing an alkene and is named for Cossee and Arlman. A cyclic molecule is used in the ring-opening form of this process and includes less shrinkage. This process may be intiated by azo- or peroxy- based initiators, light, or a redox reaction, among other methods. One form of this process begins with a molecule with a double bond and a free radical addition to that double bond. The “living” form of this process allows more control over the end product than the conventional “free radical” type of this process. This process may utilize Ziegler-Natta catalysts, and can be subdivided into initiation, propagation, transfer, and termination steps. For ten points, name this process in which large compounds are formed out of monomers.
ANSWER: Polymerization