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October 1997 Featured on the Cover
This month's cover showing strikingly colored fall foliage is related to the article Chem-Is-Tree, by Dana M. Barry, and to JCE Classroom Activity: #2. Barry provides interesting and useful information about trees, their constituent substances, and the many uses we make of those substances. This month's JCE Classroom Activity deals with anthocyanins, the substances that produce the beautiful reds and purples of fall foilage, and the colors of many flowers and vegetables as well. Red-cabbage indicator is one example of a practical application of anthocyanins, and many others are explored in this month's activity. Extracting ground-up petunia petals with isopropyl alcohol, for example, produces an indicator solution..

Cover design by Nina Hofstadler of The Design
Consortium, Richland, WA.

Cover designed by Betsy True.

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