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The back pages of issues in Volumes 1-9 contained Local Activities and Opportunities (later called
Contemporary News in Chemistry and Education), which posted summaries of goings-on in chemistry
departments, ACS sections, and foreign scientific organizations. These news clips are valuable
sources of anecdotal information from the 1920s and early 1930s.
Contests Revisited
Only one brave soul responded to last April's challenge. To refresh everyone else's memory,
From Past Issues reprinted a diagram from the What Is Wrong Here? series of 1929 and 1930. The
picture showed a faulty laboratory set-up for the synthesis of nitric acid. The contest also
asked for suggestions for the identities of "chlorazene" and the "corrosive sublimate", used
in the Spriggins' family hen house in the skit Chemistry Saves the Day.
See Letter re: this article.
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