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October 1997
Vol. 74 No. 10


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue1145
Editorial
Using a Living Textbook Effectively1149
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News 1150
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers1151
J. Emory Howell
Letters
Letter to the Editor about "Swedish Chemists and Discovery of the Elements" by Volker Thomsen (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 937)1152
Stephen J. Hawkes
Letters
Letter to the Editor about "Swedish Chemists and Discovery of the Elements" by Volker Thomsen (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 937)1152
Claudio Gutierrez
Letters
Waste Treatment in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Let the Students Do It!1152
Volker Wiskamp
Letters
The autors reply to: Waste Treatment in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Let the Students Do It!1152
John J. Nash, Susan C. Nurrenbern, and Jeanne A. R. Meyer
Letters
Group Theory in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry1152
Brahama D. Sharma
Announcements
Announcements1153
Commentary
An Essential Recognition: Two Valid Introductory Chemistries1154
Gordon M. Barrow
2YC3: Is Articulation from Two-to Four-year Colleges an Allowed or a Forbidden Transition?1156
Tamar Y. Susskind
Experiential, Cooperative, and Study Abroad Education
An International Collaborative Undergraduate Research Program between Ithaca College and Leiden University1158
Andrew S. Koch, Heinz F. Koch, and Gerrit Lodder
Letters
Ionization Constants1160
Morris Bader
Letters
The reply: Ionization Constants1160
S. Roo, L. Vermeire, and C. Gorller-Walrand
MathBrowser: Web-Enabled Mathematical Software with Application to the Chemistry Curriculum, v 1.01164
Jack G. Goldsmith
Teaching Secondary School Science: Strategies for Developing Scientific Literacy, 6th ed. (by Leslie W. Trowbridge and Rodger W. Bybee)1167
Harold H. Harris
Constructing Science in Middle and Secondary School Classroom (by Dale R. Baker and Michael D. Piburn)1167
Harold H. Harris
The Chemistry Classroom: Formulas for Successful Teaching (by J. Dudley Herron)1167
Harold H. Harris
Beginning Organic Chemistry 1 and Beginning Organic Chemistry 2 (by Graham L. Patrick)1169
Richard Pagni
Modern Techniques in Eletroanalysis (edited by Peter Vanysek)1170
Mark M. Richter

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chem-Is-Tree1175
Dana M. Barry
JCE Classroom Activity
Anthocyanins: A Colorful Class of Compounds1176A
Engaging Students in the Action of Chemistry: An Effective, Fun, and Inexpensive Outreach Program1178
Jane M. Van Doren, Lisa P. Nestor, and W. Berk Knighton

 In The Classroom
Reminder Sheets for Chemistry Examinations1180
Charles L. Perrin
Project Longhorn: A Pilot Project in the Use of Batch Computing in High School Chemistry Teaching1181
Sally Busboom
Cheating Probabilities on Multiple Choice Tests1185
Gaspard T. Rizzuto and Fred Walters
Introducing Third-Year Chemistry Students to the Planning and Design of an Experimental Program1186
Jeffrey G. Dunn, David Norman Phillips, and Wilhelm van Bronswijk

 In the Laboratory
An Exercise To Illustrate the Importance of Sample Preparation in Chemical Analysis1188
Jeffrey G. Dunn, David Philips, and Wilhelm van Bronswijk
The Floating Siphon - an Effective "Homemade" Device for High Dilution Experiments1190
Alexander Kolchinski
Analysis of the Essential Nutrient Strontium in Marine Aquariums by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy: An Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Exercise1192
Laurent D. Gilles de Pelichy, Carl Adam, and Eugene T. Smith
pH Dependent Redox Couple: An Illustration of the Nernst Equation1195
Mary M. Walczak, Deborah A. Dryer, Dana D. Jacobson, Michele G. Foss, and Nolan T. Flynn
Potentiometric Acid-Base Titrations with Activated Graphite Electrodes1198
P. Riyazuddin and D. Devika
Celsius to Fahrenheit and Vice Versa - Quick, Exact, and Neat1199
S. C. Dutta Roy
UV-Visible Spectrooelectrochemistry of the Reduction Products of Anthraquinone in Dimethylformamide Solutions: An Advanced Undergraduate Experiment1200
Ali Babaei, Paul A. Connor, A. James McQuillan, and Siva Umapathy
Eliminating Mercury Thermometers from the Lab1204
T. Stephen Everett
Preparation of Semiconducting Materials in the Laboratory, Part 2: Microscale Chemical Bath Deposition of Materials with Band Gap Energies in the UV, VIS, and IR1205
Jorge G. Ibanez, Flora Gomez, Ivonne Konik, Diana E. Lozano, Alejandra Mugica, Mono M. Singh, Zvi Szafran, and Ronald M. Pike
Molecular Photophysics of Acridine Yellow Studied by Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence: An Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment1208
Julius C. Fister III, Joel M. Harris, Diana Rank, and William Wacholtz
IR Spectroscopy or Hooke's Law at the Molecular Level - A Joint Freshman Physics-Chemistry Experience1213
Jeffrey T. Burke
A Stopped-Flow Kinetics Experiment for Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories: Formation of Iron(III) Thiocyannate1214
Charles R. Clark
Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Control in the Dehydration of 2-Methylcyclopentanol: A Two-Part Laboratory Experiment Utilizing the Gignard Reaction and GC-MS1218
Thomas Poon, Bradford P. Mundy, Jean McIntyre, Lesley Woods, Frank G. Favaloro Jr., and Christina A. Goudreau
Ozonolysis Experiments Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry: An Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment1220
Charlene M. Rhoads, George R. Farquar, and William F. Wood
Dry-Column Flash Chromatography1222
Alan J. Shusterman, Patrick G. McDougal, and Arthur Glasfeld
Regioselective Hydrochlorination: An Experiment for the Undergraduate Laboratory1223
Philip Boudjouk, Beon-Kyu Kim, and Byung-Hee Han
Microwave Assisted Wolff-Kishner Reduction Reaction1225
Eric Parquet and Qun Lin
Resolution of Racemic Phenylsuccinic Acid Using (-)-Proline as a Resolving Agent: An Introductory Organic Chemistry Experiment1226
Victor Cesare and Ralph Stephani
Determination of Critical Micelle Concentration of Some Surfactants by Three Techniques1227
Ana Dominguez, Aurora Fernandez, Noemi Gonzalez, Emilia Iglesias, and Luis Montenegro
Determination of Enthalpy of Vaporization Using a Microwave Oven1231
Alvin P. Kennedy Sr.

 Research: Science and Education
Evaluation of Learning Processes in an Organic Chemistry Course1233
Beatriz Maroto, C. Camusso, and M. Cividini
Metal Complexes of EDTA: An Exercise in Data Interpretation1235
Philip C. H. Mitchell

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Disadvantages of Double Reciprocal Plots1238
R. Bruce Martin
Simple and Inexpensive 8-Bit Analog to Digital Converter for the PCs Parallel Port1241
Orfeo Zerbinati
Computer Bulletin Board
An Inexpensive Photon Counter Interface for the Personal Computer1243
Scott A. Riley and Allan M. Nishimura
JCE Software
A Window on the Solid State: Part I: Structures of Metals; Part II: Unit Cells of Metals; Part III: Strucutres of Ionic Solids; Part IV: Unit Cells of Inoic Solids (Abstract of Volume 5D, Number 2)1245
William R. Robinson and Joan F. Tejchma
JCE Software
Solid State Structures (Abstract of Volume 5D, Number 2)1246
Ludwig A. Mayer
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