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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1998  > November  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 November 1998
Vol. 75 No. 11

 Chemical Education Today
From Past Issues: The More Things Change...1354
In This Issue: Celebrating 75 Years!1355
Editorial
Persistence1359
John W. Moore
News1360
Especially for High School Teachers1361
J. Emory Howell
Letters1362
Book and Media Reviews
On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science (by Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides)1363
J. A. Kampmeier
Announcements1364
Shaping the Future: CUR Seventh National Conference Continues a National Dialogue1366
Judith A. Halstead
Reports from Other Journals
The Best of Chem 13 News1368
Kathy Thorsen
Report
Education, Emerging Information Technology, and the NSF1370
Donald J. Wink
NSF Highlights
X-ray Diffraction Facility for Undergraduate Teaching and Research in Chemistry and Physics1372
Sarah Stoll
Journal History
Journal History: Guiding the Journal of Chemical Education1373
Meeting Report
Boston ACS Meeting, Chemical Education Program1381
Tom Wildeman, Frank Torre, and Julianne Smist
Meeting Report
15th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education1383
R. J. Friesen
Commentary
How Good Is the Quantum Mechanical Explanation of the Periodic System?1384
Eric R. Scerri
Correction to J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 332-3381387
R. Kiralj
Correction to Nucleophilic Addition vs. Substitution: A Puzzle for the Organic Laboratory by Ernest F. Silversmith (J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 221)1387
Ernest F. Silversmith
Correction to "Kinetics of Consecutive Reactions: First Reaction, First-Order; Second Reaction, Zeroth Order" by David W. Ball (J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 917-919)1387
David W. Ball
Book and Media Reviews
Introductory Chemistry: Concepts and Connections, 2nd Edition (by Charles H. Corwin)1389
Wheeler Conover
Book and Media Reviews
Chemistry SkillBuilder CD-ROM (by Steven D. Gammon and Sharon Hutchison)1389
Dawn Hensley and Wheeler Conover
Book and Media Reviews
Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition (by Paula Y. Bruice)1390
Marlene Katz
Book and Media Reviews
Liquid Interfaces in Chemistry and Biology (by Alexander G. Volkov, David W. Deamer, Darrell L. Tanelian, and Vladislav S. Markin)1391
William E. Acree, Jr.
Book and Media Reviews
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (by Ronald G. Harvey)1392
C. F. Murray
Book and Media Reviews
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry (edited by Joseph J. Lagowski)1393
reviewed by George B. Kauffman
Book and Media Reviews
Booknote: Core Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition (by Marye Anne Fox and James K. Whitesell)1394
reviewed by Samuel S. Stradling

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Using Bad Science To Teach Good Chemistry1399
Michael S. Epstein
Gas Experiments with Plastic Soda Bottles1405
Patrick Kavanah and Arden P. Zipp
Hands-On Practical Chemistry for All--Why and How?1406
John D. Bradley, S. Durbach, B. Bell, J. Mungarulire, and H. Kimel
How To Learn and Have Fun with Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) and White Glue1410
V. de Zea Bermudez, P. Passos de Almeida, and J. Féria Seita
Using Plastiline in the Laboratory1418
Francisco J. Arnáiz
Polymer Chemistry in Science Centers and Museums: A Survey of Educational Resources1419
David M. Collard and Scott McKee

 In The Classroom
A Capstone Writing Experience in Polymer Chemistry: Writing a Proposal for an Instrument Purchase1424
Allen D. Hunter
Models for Models: An Introduction to Polymer Models Employing Simple Analogies1425
M. Pilar Tarazona and Enrique Saiz
Tested Demonstrations
The Alginate Demonstration: Polymers, Food Science, and Ion Exchange1430
Amy Sue Waldman, Linda Schechinger, Geeta Govindarajoo, James S. Nowick, and Louis H. Pignolet
Tested Demonstrations
Lead Globules1431
Francisco J. Arnáiz and Maria R. Pedrosa
JCE Classroom Activity
What's Gluep? Characterizing a Cross-Linked Polymer1432A
Applications and Analogies
A Cyclist's Guide to Ionic Concentration1433
Arthur M. Last
Modeling Nuclear Decay: A Point of Integration between Chemistry and Mathematics1434
Kent J. Crippen and Robert D. Curtright
Science Success Strategies: An Interdisciplinary Course for Improving Science and Mathematics Education1437
Stephen A. Angel and Donna E. LaLonde
A One-Semester General, Organic, and Biochemistry Course Format Linked by a Molecular Model Project1442
Henry J. Tracy
Transforming Traditional Sophomore Quant into a Course on Modern Analytical Science1444
S. P. Perone, J. Pesek, C. Stone, and P. Englert

 In the Laboratory
Do New Pennies Lose Their Shells? Hypothesis Testing in the Sophomore Analytical Chemistry Laboratory1453
Richard J. Stolzberg
Practical Origami in the Microscale Organic Lab1456
Daryl L. Ostercamp
Microscale Synthesis of UO2Cl2(OPPh3)21457
Francisco J. Arnáiz and Mariano J. Miranda
The Octahedral-Square-Planar Transition of Nickel Chelates1458
Lina Ben-Dor and Yizhak Marcus
Resolution of trans-Cyclohexane-1,2-diamine and Determination of the Enantiopurity Using Chiral Solid-Phase HPLC Techniques and Polarimetry1459
Patrick J. Walsh, Diane K. Smith, and Chris Castello
Determination of Chloride Concentration Using Capillary Zone Electrophoresis: An Instrumental Analysis Chemistry Laboratory Experiment1463
Michael A. Janusa, Lawrence J. Andermann, Nicole M. Kliebert, and Mark H. Nannie
Fluorescent Probes and the Structural Evolution of Hybrid and Nonhybrid Sol-Gel Systems1466
L. M. Ilharco, J. M. Gaspar Martinho, and C. I. Martins
Phase-Transfer Catalytic Reactions: A Physical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment1470
Nahid Shabestary, Sadegh Khazaeli, and Richie Hickman
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Cometary Spectroscopy for Advanced Undergraduates1472
Osman Sorkhabi, William M. Jackson, and Iraj Daizadeh
Use of the Vreeland Spectroscope in the Quantum Chemistry Laboratory1477
William G. Wickun
Use of a Reliable Homemade Dilatometer To Study the Kinetics of the Radical Chain Polymerization of PMMA: An Undergraduate Polymer Chemistry Laboratory Kinetics Experiment1479
Francisco Mendicuti, Olga Martín, and Maria Pilar Tarazona

 Research: Science and Education
Inadequacies of the SN1 Mechanism1482
Johannes Dale
The Influence of Distillation Conditions on the Azeotropic Composition1486
Jaime Wisniak
Potential Functions in Chemical Thermodynamics1490
Roger Araujo
Physical Interpretation of Koopmans' Theorem: A Criticism of the Current Didactic Presentation1494
Celestino Angeli

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Why Does an Equilibrium Constant Not Appear Constant?1497
R. Bruce Martin
Using the World Wide Web in a Course in Physical Chemistry1499
Joseph H. Noggle and Cecil R. Dybowski
Computer Bulletin Board
A Maple Program That Illustrates the Effect of pH on Peptide Charge1500
Charles W. Sokolik
JCE Online
Conceptual Questions and Challenge Problems1502
Susan C. Nurrenbern and William R. Robinson
JCE Software
Buffers Plus1504
Richard W. Ramette
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 June 18, 1999
September 23, 2005
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