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Cover
March 2002
Vol. 79 No. 3


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Should All Information Be Free?279
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Inquiry Methods in Chemistry281
Diana S. Mason
ACS National Meeting
Orlando, April 7-11, 2002: Program for the Division of Chemical Education282
Elizabeth Pulliam, Venkatesh Shanbhag, and Frank Torre
ACS National Meeting
Orlando, April 7-11, 2002: High School Program292
ACS National Meeting
Orlando, April 7-11, 2002: CHED-Sponsored Workshop292
ACS National Meeting
Orlando, April 7-11, 2002: Presidential Plenary Session293
ACS National Meeting
Orlando, April 7-11, 2002: Undergraduate Program294
ACS National Meeting
Orlando, April 7-11, 2002: Notices, Division of Chemical Education296
Nobel Centennial Essays
A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1943: George de Hevesy301
Josh Van Houten
NSF Highlights
The Influence of Modern NMR Spectroscopy on Undergraduate Organic, Inorganic, and Physical Chemistry at Florida State University306
Joseph B. Vaughn, Jr.
The Information Page308
News & Announcements309
Letters
Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?310
Eric R. Scerri
Letters
Research Is to Teaching...310
Stewart Karp
Letters
Understanding Enzyme Inhibition311
Addison Ault
Letters
Understanding Enzyme Inhibition311
Raymond S. Ochs
Book and Media Reviews
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (by Oliver Sacks) 312
A. Truman Schwartz
Book and Media Reviews
Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis (by Richard I. Masel)313
Richard M. Pagni
Book and Media Reviews
A Serious but Not Ponderous Book about Nuclear Energy (by Walter Scheider)314
Peggy Geiger
Book and Media Reviews
Chemical Safety for Teachers and Their Supervisors, Grades 7-12 (by American Chemical Society and ACS Board-Council Committee on Chemical Safety) 315
Lisa Keith-Lucas
Book and Media Reviews
The Genie in the Bottle (by Joe Schwarcz)316
Jeffrey Kovac
Advertising in This Issue316
Out of the Editor's Basket317

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Blending in with the Body321
Andrew L. Lewis and Mike Driver
Notes on the Early History of the Interaction between Physical Chemistry and Biochemistry: The Development of Physical Biochemistry327
Mercedes Guzmán-Casado and Antonio Parody-Morreale

 In The Classroom
Tested Demonstrations
Are Surfactant Molecules Really Oriented in the Interface?332
Nasimul Gani and Jasmina Khanam
The Lead-Acid Battery: Its Voltage in Theory and in Practice334
Richard S. Treptow
A Chemically Relevant Model for Teaching the Second Law of Thermodynamics339
Bryce E. Williamson and Tetsuo Morikawa

 In the Laboratory
The Electrolytic Recovery of Copper from Brass. A Laboratory Simulation of an Industrial Application of Electrical Energy343
Domenico Osella, Mauro Ravera, Cristina Soave, and Sonia Scorza
Integrating HPLC and Electrochemistry: A LabVIEW-Based Pulsed Amperometric Detection System345
Mark B. Jensen
A Simple Student Experiment for Teaching Surface Electrochemistry: Adsorption of Polyoxometalate on Graphite Electrodes349
David Martel, Neso Sojic, and Alexander Kuhn
JCE Classroom Activity
Lego Stoichiometry352A
J. Eric Witzel
Quantifying Meniscus Forces with an Electronic Balance: Direct Measurement of Liquid Surface Tension. A Physical Chemistry Experiment353
Rafael M. Digilov
The Visible Spectrum of Liquid Oxygen in the General Chemistry Laboratory356
Frazier Nyasulu, John Macklin, and William Cusworth III
Two Experiments Illustrating the Importance of Sampling in a Quantitative Chemical Analysis360
David Harvey
ICP in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory: Determination of Plasma Temperature364
Melissa A. Page, Benjamin W. Smith, and Kathryn R. Williams
A Novel and Innovative Biochemistry Laboratory: Crystal Growth of Hen Egg White Lysozyme366
Elizabeth Garrett, Audrey Wehr, Rebecca Hedge, David L. Roberts, and Jacqueline R. Roberts
Using Infrared Spectroscopy to Investigate Protein Structure369
Janet Olchowicz, Deidra R. Coles, Lori E. Kain, and Gina MacDonald
The Cis-Trans Equilibrium of N-Acetyl-L-Proline. An Experiment for the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory372
Kathryn R. Williams, Bhavin Adhyaru, Igor German, and Eric Alvarez
Experimental Design and Polyelectrolyte Effects on Ligand Binding to Nucleic Acids. An Undergraduate Biochemistry Lab374
Matthew A. Fisher, Danielle Johnston, and Daniel A. Ritt

 Research: Science and Education
Concepts in Biochemistry
Cholesterol Biosynthesis: Lanosterol to Cholesterol377
John M. Risley
The Stoichiometric Displacement Model and Langmuir and Freundlich Adsorption385
Xindu Geng and Don M. Zebolsky
Statistical Study of Distribution Diagrams for Two-Component Systems: Relationships of Means and Variances of the Discrete Variable Distributions with Average Ligand Number and Intrinsic Buffer Capacity389
Rosario Moya-Hernández, Juan Carlos Rueda-Jackson, María Teresa Ramírez, Guillermo A. Vázquez, Josef Havel, and Alberto Rojas-Hernández
Is Salt Melting When It Dissolves in Water?393
Alan Goodwin

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Redox Redux: Recommendations for Improving Textbook and IUPAC Definitions397
Ed Vitz
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