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Year 1 Editi on 1

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Alexandra Bouriakova – ChairwomanChemical Engineering

What is your favorite drink? Latt e macchiato with a shot of caramel syrup.Who’s your favorite Marvel character, and why? Natalia Romanova aka Black Widow. She was born in my hometown Volgograd! Who wouldn’t like to have the skills of a KGB secret agent?If you could live in any period of history, when would it be? I would like to live during the Industrial Revoluti on. It was a ti me of many import-ant developments and I could discover something so everybody would know me these days. What is your biggest obsession or addicti on? CATS.

Timothy Huygens – Public relati onsChemical Engineering

What is your favorite drink? Blue thrill, one shot Blue Curaçao and one shot lemon juice. And if you really want to make a party epic, you can switch lemon juice for lemon jenever. Who’s your favorite Marvel character, and why? James “Logan” Howlett aka Wolverine. Retractable claws check. Fast healing check. Heightened senses check. Unbreakable adamanti um skeleton check. I’m ready for school this year.If you could live in any period of history, when would it be? I would choose the Renaissance period and live in Italy as apprenti ce of Leonar-do Da Vinci, the greatest polymath ever lived. What is your biggest addicti on? MOVIES.

Presentation of the new board

MaChT magazine will be published three ti mes per semester. Next editi on: end of October Responsible publisher: Jasper Beckx Year: 1 Editi on: 1

MaChT is proud to present you our brand new MaChT magazine! In this editi on we will fi rst introduce ourselves as the new board. Remember us, because we are the ones that will give you free stuff ! Next we will bring you back to the tough Roman ti mes and talk about the batt le between gallium and germanium! Well maybe I’m exaggerati ng a litt le bit here. But sti ll it’s very interesti ng, so check it out. If you have a weakness for awesome cars, skip to page 8 and 9. Of course we will also provide you of a game. Give your soluti on to one of our board members and have a chance to win a great prize! As the new board we will take over the work of our predecessors. They have done it amazing last year. Now we are ready to conti nue and make this year legendary! To help us making our acti viti es awesome, we are always looking for some enthusiasti c helpers. So don’t hesitate and join us!

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Lies De Keer – Vice-Chairwoman/SecretaryChemical Engineering

What is your favorite drink? Ice coff ee with cara-mel ice cream, a lot of whipped cream and a snuff of cinnamon.Who’s your favorite Marvel character, and why? “Once a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mu-tants, Rogue has since become a veteran member of the X-Men. Aft er many years, she has fi nally gained conscious control of her power to absorb the thoughts, abiliti es and memories of others through physical contact.” I think this sounds prett y cool…If you could live in any period of history, when would it be? About 20 years ago but with the same knowledge as now. Then at this ti me, I would be one of the richer and smarter people in the world. What is your biggest obsession or addicti on? A day without (at least fi ve cups of) coff ee is a day wasted.

Florence Vermeire – Public Relati onsChemical Engineering

What is your favorite drink? Off spec water (88% pure).Who’s your favorite Marvel character, and why? Raven Darkholme aka Mysti que. She can look how-ever she wants and stay young forever!If you could live in any period of history, when would it be? In the period they build the Frozen castle and everything had its happy ending.What is your biggest obsession or addicti on? Ice cream.

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Anton De Vylder – TreasurerChemical Engineering

What is your favorite drink? A white russian. (The Dude abides!) Who’s your favorite Marvel character, and why? Apocalypse, because he has control over his body on molecular level allowing him to change shape, teleport, increase density and allow his body to mimic metals and armors!If you could live in any period of history, when would it be? This period! Because now is the most exciti ng ti me for engineers: the development of new and exciti ng technology was never this fast in the history of man-kind. What is your biggest obsession or addicti on? Binge watching TV series.

Jasper Beckx – Internal Relati onsSustainable materials engineering – Polymeren en vezelstructuren

What is your favorite drink? Guinness beer. It’s al-ways a lovely day for a Guinness!Who’s your favorite Marvel character, and why? My favorite Marvel character must be someone who can fl y, is strong, has a genius level intellect and looks awesome. This leads me to the invincible Iron Man!If you could live in any period of history, when would it be? I would go back to the ti me of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and all the other great rock arti sts. I have their music, but watching them in real life in their peak years is something I want to ex-perience!What is your biggest obsession or addicti on? Fast cars!

An elemental journey:from France to Germany

hot tea. Gallium remains liquid for more than 2300°C and is oft en used in high temperature thermometers. Interesti ng compounds with gallium are gallium arsenide (GaAs) and galli-um nitride (GaN). Today, GaAs is used in high-tech applicati ons like high speed logic chips and microwave pre-amplifi ers in cell phones. Both GaAs and GaN are used in optoelectronics as laser diodes and LEDs which have oft en a bright blue color. In every Blu-Ray Disc player, GaN based diode la-sers are used as a violet light source.

Germanium was originally discovered in Freiburg, Germany so its name is derived from the Lati n word Ger-mania. It is a typical silver grey metal-loid that is very hard but britt le. Aft er its discovery in the late 19th centu-ry, it was mostly used for its physical properti es and not for its chemical ones.Due to the development of germani-um transistors and recti fi ers, count-less new applicati on of solid state electronics were discovered, but nowadays high-purity silicon has re-placed its germanium counterpart in this fi eld. An important feature of germanium is its transparency in the infrared spectrum which makes it an important opti cal material. Without germanium, thermal imaging or night vision wouldn’t be possible.

How many chemical elements do you know in detail? Most people can recite the fi rst and second period’s elements by heart. The third period is probably a litt le more challenging, but you should sti ll be fi ne. Next is the fourth period which introduces the d-block. The d-block has more chemical elements which you don’t use on a day-to-day basis. Do you know them all? Probably not, but don’t worry. I’m here to help you get to know those elements you’ve heard of but don’t know the uses and properti es of.

Today I’ll introduce you to gallium and germanium. Despite being neigh-bors in the periodic table, with atom-ic numbers #31 and #32, they don’t have much in common. Gallium be-longs to the metal group, while ger-manium is a metalloid with properti es of both metals and non-metals.

Gallium’s name is derived from the Lati n word Gallia which means France, where the metal originally was dis-covered. It is a soft , silver white met-al, has a melti ng point of only 29.76 °C (302.91 K) and remains liquid un-ti l 2400°C (2673 K). Due to this low melti ng point, it will melt inside your hand due to your body temperature and it is also oft en used in magic tricks where a Gallium spoon disappears in

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Gallium

Our refi nery is situated in the industrial area of Vlissingen-Oost in Zeeland. We have a disti lla-ti on capacity of 180,000 barrels of crude oil per day and a hydrocracking unit, one of the largest in Europe, with a capacity of 68,000 barrels per day. ZR is technically one of the most effi cient

refi neries and performs as one of the best in Western Europe. We have 420 employees and more than 250 employees from permanent maintenance con-tractors also work in the refi nery.

ArcelorMitt al Gent lies on the right bank of the Gent-Terneuzen canal, at 20 km from the city of Gent. ArcelorMitt al Gent employs 4.700 people and is therefore one of the largest private em-ployers in the province of East Flanders. Our em-ployees’ knowledge and commitment are two of

our main assets. They play an essenti al part in the further opti misati on of our safety performance, product quality and overall producti vity.

Aleris Aluminium Duff el is an important supplier of aluminum intermediate goods, further pro-cessed in the automoti ve sector. Examples of ap-plicati ons are the engine cover, doors, … for e.g. Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Daimler. For this pur-

pose, the company has invested the past 10 years in machinery and research. The greatest advantage of aluminum is the low mass compared to the classical materials, which is important in the context of CO2 limitati ons imposed by the automoti ve sector.

Tamico is short for ‘The Amine Company’. We have grown to a specialized world market lead-er in alkyl amines, their derivati ves and formic acid soluti ons. Our products are chemical build-ing blocks, further processed to end products by

other industrial groups. Our markets are diverse and include the producti on of detergents, medicines, texti le and water treatment, but also vital building blocks for ferti lizers, fodder and crop protecti on. We are everywhere in your everyday life.

Engineers and cars

A lot of engineering is necessary in the development of a car. So let’s see what the contributi on of material and chemical engineers already has been! For this purpose we discuss the BMW i3, Tesla Model S and GM Firebird II.

The BMW i3 is the fi rst mass produc-ti on car to use carbon fi ber reinforced plasti c for a major component. The passenger cell is enti rely made out of this material. So how do they do it? It all starts in Moses Lake, Washing-ton at SGL Automoti ve Carbon Fibers where the carbon fi ber is made. Here polyacrylonitrile is fi rst formed into a web. The next step in the process is oxidati on. Finally, the carbon fi ber goes through the winding process, before being sent to a BMW plant in Germany. There, giant looms weave the carbon fi ber into a texti le form to make for easy shaping. The fi bers are not twisted, but laid alongside each other on a single plane. This ensures that the component is as rigid as pos-sible. Then the carbon texti les are shaped to the form they need. Resins are pressed between the fi bers and the form is hardened.The carbon fi ber reinforced plasti c is half the weight of steel for the same applicati on, improving the effi cien-cy potenti al for the BMW i3. It’s also corrosion free and crash safe. It’s

way to wire together many thousands of separate cells, compared to several hundred of the larger cells. Tesla also invented a liquid cooling system that snakes between the cells and can re-move heat so quickly that a problem with one cell doesn’t spread to the others. Tesla now has released its pat-ents. So maybe you can start building your own electric car!

Last but not least is the GM Firebird II. The car was built in 1956 as a concept car. The body of this car is enti rely made out of ti tanium! It was the fi rst one and sti ll the only one. It turned out it was prett y hard to make a body-work out of ti tanium. So maybe this is a challenge for our students metal-lurgy!

an amazing material that will have a growing impact on the auto indus-try. All this and other developments for the BMW i3 made it a prett y cool car. There will be diff erent opinions about the design, but this is defi nite-ly a beauty in comparison with other electric cars!

Another electric car is the Tesla Model S. The maker of this one has to be a combinati on of Tony Stark and Steve Jobs! If the door handles aren’t used they withdraw into the bodywork of the car. Keep the Tesla-shaped key in your pocket while approaching the car and the door handles appear! In the car there is a 17 inch touchscreen that lets you operate just about ev-erything, for instance the amount of braking regenerati on. The interior of-fers so much space that you can order, bizarrely, an extra row of seats. And of course there is internet on board. Stepping into this car is stepping into the future! The Tesla Model S is a fully electric car. For this it uses lithium-ion batt eries: 60 kWh, 85 kWh or the 85 kWh Performance Pack. The Model S is the best electric car on the market. In contrast to every other automaker, which use specialized large format Li-Ion cells, Tesla’s batt ery pack is made up of thousands of inexpensive com-modity cells similar to those found in laptops. Unlike automoti ve cells, these cells are produced in the billions. Tesla could also use the most energy-dense batt ery materials available. This ap-proach meant Tesla had to develop a

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1. Formula of the compound formed when potassium reacts with water

5. Iodine readily forms this coloured vapour when gently heated

6. If it is this, it is probably not very reactive

11. Metals that react violently with water

13. Gives you a brown vapour when the bottle is opened in the fume cupboard

14. This kind of chemistry tells you what exactly is in a compound or mixture.

15. Symbol of a rare metal which is used to make expensive silvery jewellery but isn't silver

16. Karl Scheele called it, fire air. Joseph Priestley called it dephlogisticated air (formula)

17. The colour of the precipitate when sodium hydroxide is added to an iron(III) chloride solution

20. Not really a transition metal and doesn't form coloured compounds usually, but it’s handy in batteries

21. It's shiny yellow and your girlfriend wants it

22. Chemical Symbol for an orange-red Transition Metal

23. This type of chemical reaction absorbs heat energy

25. When a solid is formed from mixing solutions

26. Not very reactive but lights up your life!

28. A hot way of identifying certain metal ions in a sample

30. The colour of the precipitate when sodium hydroxide is added to a zinc chloride solution

32. Everyone of these is equivalent to 4.18 joules.

34. An element used to disinfect the skin in operations

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2. High melting polyethene

3. A row of very useful elements in Period number 4 with many structural applications.

4. Formed by nuclear fusion of hydrogen, for example in the Sun.

7. The state of iodine at ambient conditions

8. Made up of two atoms

9. Reactive, quite coloured, non-metals

10. One of the colours you see in the flame test for copper

11. A very unreactive gas used in light bulbs and lasers

12. The oxide of this metalloid is toxic and has been used as a vermin poison.

18. Chlorine is a very ... non-metal

19. This person established the relationship between absolute temperature and reaction rate.

24. The colour of sodium atoms in a flame test

27. Awesome in balloons!

29. It is not possible to break this into simpler substances

31. If chlorine is breathed in, it causes ... to the lungs

33. The charge on a neutron.

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