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October 2002
Vol. 79 No. 10


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Educating Stewards of Our Discipline1159
John W. Moore
Secondary School Chemistry
A New Crop of Opportunities1161
Erica K. Jacobsen
National Chemistry Week 2002: Chemistry Keeps Us Clean–JCE Resources for Chemistry and Cleaning1162
Erica K. Jacobsen
From Past Issues
Clean Chemistry: Entertaining and Educational Activities with Soap Bubbles1168
Kathryn R. Williams
JCE Classroom Activity
Brushing Up on Chemistry1168A
Ashley Trantow
Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature: Clean Up Your Act with Chemistry1170
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
NCW 2002: Chemistry Keeps Us Clean. Chemists Clean Up: A History and Exploration of the Craft of Soapmaking—How Soap Came to be Common in America1172
Kim Kostka and David D. McKay
Commentary
What's Wrong with Cookbooks?1177
Addison Ault
News from Online: Cleaning Up–Soap, Detergent, and More1179
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1995: Paul Crutzen, Sherwood Rowland, and Mario Molina1182
Josh Van Houten
Reports from Other Journals
A Phenomenographic Study: First Year Chemical Engineering Students' Conceptions of Energy in Dissolution Processes1189
Kenneth S. Lyle and William R. Robinson
NSF Highlights
Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry at Humboldt State University1192
Richard A. Paselk and Robert W. Zoellner
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Sodium Hypochlorite Solution1196
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Sodium Fluoride1197
Jay A. Young
The Information Page1198
News & Announcements1199
Letters
CLIP: Acetic Anhydride1202
Charlie A. Crutchfield
Letters
CLIP: Acetic Anhydride1202
Jay A. Young
Corrections
Correction to "Achieving Absolute Negative Pressures in Liquids: Precipitation Phenomena in Solution" (J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 869)1203
Book and Media Reviews
Spectroscopy for Schools and Colleges [CD-ROM] (by the Royal Society of Chemistry and GlaxoWellcome)1204
Thomas H. Eberlein
Book and Media Reviews
From Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A Lifetime of Reactions (Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry) (by Fred Basolo)1206
Alvin L. Crumbliss
Book and Media Reviews
Applications of Inorganic Mass Spectrometry (by John R. de Laeter)1206
Bill Boggess
Book and Media Reviews
Fundamentals of Electroanalytical Chemistry (by Paul M. S. Monk)1207
David L. Langhus
Advertising in This Issue1208
Out of the Editor's Basket1209

 Chemistry for Everyone
For Mole Problems, Call Avogadro: 602-10231213
R. E. Uthe
Applications and Analogies
The World's First "Pastarimeter": An Analogous Demonstration of Polarimetry Using Pasta Fusilli1214
Claire Saxon, Scott Brindley, Nic Jervis, Graeme R. Jones, E. David Morgan, and Christopher A. Ramsden
DeLorenzo's Four Interesting Mysteries Verified1217
Josefina Ma. Ferriols-Pavico
Tested Demonstrations
The Liquid Nitrogen Fountain1220
Robin McRae, Jeffrey A. Rahn, Timothy W. Beamer, and Norm LeBret

 In The Classroom
Dendrimers: Branching Out of Polymer Chemistry1222
Eric E. Simanek and Sergio O. Gonzalez
Depletion: A Game with Natural Rules for Teaching Reaction Rate Theory1232
Donald J. Olbris and Judith Herzfeld
An Interactive Graphical Approach to Temperature Conversions1235
Jonathan Mitschele
The Flawed Nature of the Calibration Factor in Breath-Alcohol Analysis1237
Dominick A. Labianca
Entropy Is Simple, Qualitatively1241
Frank L. Lambert
Featured Molecule: October 20021246
William F. Coleman and Randy Wildman

 In the Laboratory
Organic Spectroscopy–A Capstone Experience1247
Jan M. Fleischer
Microwave-Assisted Reflux in Organometallic Chemistry: Synthesis and Structural Determination of Molybdenum Carbonyl Complexes. An Intermediate-Level Organometallic–Inorganic Experiment1249
Michael Ardon, Philip D. Hayes, and Graeme Hogarth
Copper(III) Dithiocarbamates. An Undergraduate Experimental Project with Unexpected Challenges1252
Luis I. Victoriano
Teaching Experimental Design Using a GC–MS Analysis of Cocaine on Money: A Cross-Disciplinary Laboratory1254
Christopher A. Heimbuck and Nathan W. Bower
Quantitative Determination of Nicotine and Cotinine in Urine and Sputum Using a Combined SPME-GC/MS Method1257
A. E. Witter, D. M. Klinger, X. Fan, M. Lam, D. T. Mathers, and S. A. Mabury
Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes with a Solvatochromic Fluorescent Probe1261
Nicole J. Crane, Rudolph C. Mayrhofer, Thomas A. Betts, and Gary A. Baker
Cost-Effective Spectroscopic Instrumentation for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory1264
Gary A. Lorigan, Brian M. Patterson, Andre; J. Sommer, and Neil D. Danielson

 Research: Science and Education
Effect of Mutual Solubility of Solvents in Multiple Liquid–Liquid Extraction Systems1267
Tadeusz Michalowski
Entropy Explained: The Origin of Some Simple Trends1269
Lori Watson and Odile Eisenstein

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Using the Cambridge Structural Database to Introduce Important Inorganic Concepts1278
Tiana V. Davis, M. Shahzad Zaveer, and Marc Zimmer
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