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Cover
May 1997
Vol. 74 No. 5


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue473
Editorial
Assessment, Achievement, and Understanding477
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News478
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers479
J. Emory Howell
Letters
Dymystification at What Cost? (re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 617 and 627)480
Eric Scerri
Letters
Dymystification at What Cost? (re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 617 and 627)480
R. J. Gillespie, J. N. Spencer, R. S. Moog
Announcements
Announcements482
Commentary: Reforming the General Chemistry Textbook484
Ronald G. Gillespie
Experiential, Cooperative, and Study Abroad Education
UEA/UMass Interchange Program, 1978 to Date486
Ronald D. Archer, John S. Wood, Michael J. Cook, Maryelise S. Lamet
Association Reports
Association Report: 2YC3 Notes from the Chair489
Richard F. Jones
Reports from Other Journals
Reports from Other Journals: Nature490
Sabine Heinhorst, Gordon Cannon
General Chemistry, Principles and Modern Applications, Seventh Edition (by Ralph H. Petrucci and William S. Harwood)
and
General Chemistry, Fifth Edition (by Kenneth W. Whitten, Raymond E. Davis, and M. Larry Peck)
491
reviewed by Paul S. Poskozim
Experiments in Physical Chemistry, Sixth Edition (by David P. Shoemaker, Carl W. Garland, and Joseph W. Nibler)492
reviewed by Charles S. Feigerle
Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to Purposes, Structures, Practices, and Change (by Jerry G. Gaff, James L. Radcliffe, and Associates)493
reviewed by Istvan Hargittai
Chem TV: Organic Chemistry;
Chem TV: Organic Chemistry II Version 2.0 for Windows (by Betty A. Luceigh)
494
reviewed by Michael S. Holden
Introduction to Chemical Principles, Fifth Edition (by H. Stephen Stoker)496
reviewed by Doris Zimmerman
Book Notes496
Arthur Glasfeld

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Radioactivity in Everyday Life501
S. G. Hutchison, F. I. Hutchison
Dice Shaking as an Analogy for Radioactive Decay and First Order Kinetics505
Emeric Schultz
The Chemistry of Paper Preservation: Part 4. Alkaline Paper508
Henry A. Carter
Sheldon Shore, Small Boranes, and Ammonia512
Robert W. Parry
Turkish Secondary Students' Conceptions of the Introductory Concepts518
Alipasa Ayas and Ayhan Demirbas

 In The Classroom
NSF Highlights
Chemistry for Pre-Service Middle School Teachers 522
Thomas C. O'Haver
Notes on an Outreach Forum for High School Chemistry Teachers - An Unexpected Success523
Darwin L. Mayfield
Transforming Graduate Education: A New Vision of the Professoriate525
Jason A. Cody and Michael E. Hageman
Portfolio Assessment in High School Chemsitry: One TeacherŐs Guidelines528
Amy J. Phelps, Mark M. LaPorte, Aileen Mahood
The Thermodynamics of Drunk Driving532
Robert Q. Thompson
Use of a Classroom Jury Trial To Increase Student Perception of Science as Part of Their Lives537
Marjorie A. Jones
An Analysis of the Algebraic Method for Balancing Chemical Reactions538
John A. Olson
The Coupling of Related Demonstrations to Illustrate Principles in Chemical Kinetics and Equilibrium543
Richard A. Pacer
Applications and Analogies
The Painting-Sponging Analogy for Chemical Equilibrium544
Adoni Garritz
Phase Separation in Binary Systems: the Possibility of Gas-Gas Equilibrium at Subcritical Conditions546
Jaime Wisniak

 In the Laboratory
Projects in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory: Letting the Students Choose549
Paul D. Buckley, Kenneth W. Jolley, and Ian D. Watson
Quantification of Polystyrene Acylation by IR Spectroscopy. An Experiment on Polymer IR Analysis551
Martha Albores-Velasco, Elena G. Ramirez Lopez
Vibrational Line Profiles as a Probe of Molecular Interactions553
Michael S. Bradley, Cheryl Bratu
Effect of Dielectric Constant and Ionic Strength Variation on the Fading of N,N-Dimethylaminophenolphthalein in Alkaline Medium556
M. Dakkouri and W. Bodenmuller
Ionic Strength Effect on the Rate of Reduction of Hexacyanoferrate(III) by Ascorbic Acid: A Flow Injection Kinetic Experiment560
Joanquim A. Nobrega and Fabio R. P. Rocha
Kinetic Solvent Isotope Effect: A Simple, Multipurpose Physical Chemistry Experiment562
Omar A. El Seoud, Reinaldo C. Bazito, and Paulo T. Sumodjo
Filtrates and Residues
Kinetics Studies in a Washing Bottle566
John Teggins and Chris Mahaffy
Filtrates and Residues
Analysis of Mouthwash567
Eleanor Siegrist and Guy Anderson
Properties of Zeolite A Obtained from Powdered Laundry Detergent: An Undergraduate Chemistry Experiment569
David A. Lindquist and Alison L. Smoot
A Quantitative Conductance Apparatus570
Danny Burns and Don Lewis
A Low-Cost and High-Performance Conductivity Meter572
Rogerio T. da Rocha, Ivano G. R. Gutz, and Claudimir L. do Lago
The Synthesis, Characterization, and Lewis Acidity of SnI2 and SnI4575
Richard W. Schaeffer, Benny Chan, Michael Molinaro, Susan Morissey, Claude H. Yoder, Carolyn S. Yoder, and Stephanie Shenk
The Phase-Transfer Catalyzed Preparation of Mo(CO)4(dphos): An Intermediate-Level Organometallic-Inorganic Experiment577
James A. S. Howell
Simple Synthesis and Use of a Nickel Alkene Isomerization Catalyst. An Advanced Lab in Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry579
Kurt R. Birdwhistell and Joann Lanza
endo- and exo-Stereochemistry in the Diels-Alder Reaction: Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Control582
James H. Cooley and Richard Vaughan Williams
Determination of the Enantiomeric Purity of Naproxen: An Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment585
Thomas D. Walsh and Curtis S. Koontz

 Research: Science and Education
The Organic Lab: A Status Quo Report and a Two-Semesters-in-One Approach587
Anne E. Moody and Kimberly A. Foster
The Nature and State of General Chemistry Laboratory Courses Offered by Colleges and Universities in the United States591
Michael R. Abraham, Mark S. Craolice, A. Palmer Graves, Abdulwali H. Aldhamash, Joann G. Kihega, Julieta G. Palma Gal, Valsamma Varghese
National Curriculum Survey of College General Chemistry (1993)595
Hessy L. Taft
Electron Transports in Proteins and DNA's: Principles and Applications in Bioinorganic Chemistry - X600
Ei-Ichiro Ochiai

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Numerical Methods for Finding Momentum Space Distributions605
Frank Rioux
JCE Software
Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volume 1 Abstract of Special Issue 18, a CD-ROM 607
John W. Moore and Jerrold J. Jacobsen
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