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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1998  > February  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 February 1998
Vol. 75 No. 2

 Chemical Education Today
From Past Issues: The More Things Change...130
In This Issue131
Editorial
Education versus Training135
John W. Moore
News136
Especially for High School Teachers137
J. Emory Howell
Letters to the Editor138
Announcements140
Commentary
The Perfect Text141
Ruth Russo
Workshop Report
Improving the Teaching/Learning Process in General Chemistry: Report on the 1997 Stony Brook General Chemistry Teaching Workshop143
David M. Hanson and Troy Wolfskill
Workshop Report
General Chemistry Teaching Workshop: A Student's View147
Kimberly Glenn
Book and Media Reviews
A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity (edited by Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham)151
Margaret H. Venable
Book and Media Reviews
Food: The Chemistry of Its Components, 3rd Edition (by T. P. Coultate)152
Rachelle Carandang and Greg Ziegler
Book and Media Reviews
Buffer Solutions: The Basics (by R. J. Beynon and J. S. Easterby)153
Wheeler Conover
Book and Media Reviews
Desk Reference for Organic Chemists (by Michael B. East and David J. Ager)153
R. David Crouch
Book and Media Reviews
Spin Choreography: Basic Steps in High Resolution NMR (by Ray Freeman)155
Michael J. Minch
Book and Media Reviews
Book Notes: College Chemistry Faculties 1996, 10th ed.156
George B. Kauffman

 Viewpoints
The Flexible Surface: Molecular Studies Explain the Extraordinary Diversity of Surface Chemical Properties161
Gabor A. Somorjai and Günther Rupprechter

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
JCE Classroom Activity
On the Surface: Mini-Activities Exploring Surface Phenomena176A
Lavoisier Preempted Gay-Lussac by 20 Years!177
Michael Laing
Chemistry for Kids
Introductory Electrochemistry for Kids - Food for Thought, and Human Potential178
Gary G. Stroebel and Stephanie A. Myers
Lemon Cells Revisited - The Lemon-Powered Calculator181
Daniel J. Swartling and Charlotte Morgan
The Universal Litmus Test182
Leona Heitsch

 In The Classroom
Re-blue-ing Blue Litmus Paper183
Margaret J. Steffel
Tested Demonstrations
Red Shoe-Blue Shoe: An Acid-Base Demonstration with a Fashionable Twist183
Calvin E. Uzelmeier III and Arthur C. Breyer
NSF Highlights
The Workshop Chemistry Project: Peer-Led Team-Learning185
David K. Gosser and Vicki Roth
Uncommon Oxidation Numbers of Nonmetals187
Wayne P. Anderson
A Mechanical Analogue for Chemical Potential190
Samuel V. Glass and Roger L. DeKock

 Research: Science and Education
How Does the Gibbs Free Energy Evolve in a System Undergoing Coupled Competitive Reactions?194
Ludovic Jullien, Anna Proust, and Jean-Christophe Le Menn
Prediction of the Saturation Curve of a Pure Substance Using Maxwell's Rule200
Jaime Wisniak and Moshe Golden
Analysis of Chemical Reactions by Means of Isoconversion Curves: Kx = Constant203
Valeriu Voiculescu, Luminita Simoiu, and Gavril Niac
Chemical Education Research
Spatial Perception Skills of Chemistry Students206
Sharon L. Coleman and Albert J. Gotch
Integrating Multiple Teaching Methods into a General Chemistry Classroom210
Joseph S. Francisco, Gayle Nicoll, and Marcella Trautmann

 In the Laboratory
Using Chemistry and Color To Analyze Household Products: A 10-12 Hour Laboratory Project at the General Chemistry Level214
Wayne B. Bosma
Small-Scale Kinetic Study of the Catalyzed Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide215
Ronald O. Ragsdale, Jan C. Vanderhooft , and Arden P. Zipp
Enzymatic Synthesis of (S)-(-)-gamma-Methyl-gamma-butyrolactone from Racemic Methyl gamma-hydroxypentanoate Using Porcine Pancreatic Lipase: A Microscale Advanced Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory Project217
Moses Lee
An Integrated Extraction/Crystallization/Distillation Experiment219
Claude Amsterdamsky
Nucleophilic Addition vs. Substituion: A Puzzle for the Organic Laboratory221
Ernest F. Silversmith
An Aldehyde Derivative222
J. Hodge Markgraf and Bo Yoon Choi
The Analysis of Orange Oil and the Aqueous Solubility of d-Limonene. Two Complementary Gas Chromatography Experiments223
Kathryn R. Williams and Russell E. Pierce
Enhanced Luminescence of Lanthanides: Determination of Europium by Enhanced Luminescence227
Amanda L. Jenkins and George M. Murray
Applying Statistics in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory: Experiments with Food Dyes231
Kathryn A. Thomasson, Sheila Lofthus-Herschman, Michelle Humbert, and Norman Kulevsky
An Experiment in Electronic Spectroscopy: Information Enhancement Using Second Derivative Analysis234
B. R. Ramachandran and Arthur M. Halpern

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Extending the Diatomic FTIR Experiment: A Computational Exercise To Calculate Potential Energy Curves238
Osman Sorkhabi, William M. Jackson, and Iraj Daizadeh
Computer Bulletin Board
Integration of Computational Chemistry into the Chemistry Curriculum241
Ned H. Martin
Computer Bulletin Board
Production of Numerical Chemical Problems Using a Spreadsheet243
Peter G. Hall
JCE Online
The Journal at JCE Online246
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Flying over Atoms CD-ROM: Abstract of Special Issue 19247
John R. Markham
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