Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1152
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1152 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
Challenge your colleagues – can they answer more than you ?
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A Dichroic Filter is a very accurate gas filter used to selectively pass a small range of hydrocarbons -True or False
A Dichroic filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of colors while reflecting other colors
The ability of a body or substance to resume its original shape or size when a distorting force is removed is called...
The strong mineral acid with the molecular formula H2SO4 is Sulphuric Acid – True or False
Octanes are a family of hydrocarbon that are typical components of gasoline - True or False
A Kern is a heated, thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature is produced. Typically it is used for hardening, burning or drying materials – True or False
a Kiln is the correct answer
A Fuse is a sacrificial over current protection device whose essential component is a metal wire or strip that melts when too much current flows and thus interrupts the circuit in which it is connected – True or False
Who was the Greek Goddess of love and beauty…
Fission is…
A turbocharger is a smaller secondary internal combustion engine attached to a larger primary engine which creates an increase in power - True or False
It is a forced induction device used to allow more power to be produced for an engine of a given size
Compressive strength is the opposite of tensile strength – True or False