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Table of Contents
 
Cover
April 2003
Vol. 80 No. 4


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Are Textbooks Dispensable?359
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
High Reliabilty Organizations and Engaging Education361
Diana S. Mason
News From Online
News from Online: In a Planet, Not a Test Tube: Atmospheric Chemistry362
Mark Michalovic
Building Skills with Reiterative Lab Projects366
Susan Sonchik Marine
Conant Award Interview
An Interview with Linda Ford, 2003 Award Winner369
JCE Editorial Staff
NSF Highlights
Environmental Analysis in the Instrumental Lab: More Than One Way...376
M. Sittidech and S. Street
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Calcium Carbide378
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Graphite379
Jay A. Young
The Information Page380
News & Announcements381
From the Outreach Front! IAC Conference in Cuba383
Zafra M. Lerman
Letters
Boiling Points of the Family of Small Molecules (re: J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 1544-1550)385
Jonathan Mitschele
Letters
The Author Replies to Boiling Points of the Family of Small Molecules (re: J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 1544-1550)385
Michael Laing
Corrections
Correction to "Acid Raindrops Keep Fallin' in My Lake" (re J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 40A)386
Corrections
Correction to "A Statistical Evaluation: Peer-led Team Learning in an Organic Chemistry Course" (re J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 132)386
Corrections
Correction to "A Novel Microscale Gas Generator" (J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 181) 386
Corrections
Correction to "Rate of Reaction and Rate Equations" (J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 89) 386
Book and Media Reviews
Review of "The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements" (Philip Ball)387
Linda H. Doerrer
Book and Media Reviews
The Physics and Chemistry of Materials (Joel I. Gersten and Frederick W. Smith) 387
Christopher L. Cahill
Book and Media Reviews
Techniques in Organic Chemistry: Miniscale, Standard Taper Microscale, and Williamson Microscale (Jerry R. Mohrig, Christina Noring Hammond, Paul F. Schatz, and Terence C. Morrill)388
Richard M. Pagni
Book and Media Reviews
Basic Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy ( J. Michael Hollas)389
Brian K. Taylor
Advertising in This Issue390
Out of the Editor's Basket391

 Chemistry for Everyone
Arts and Sciences Reunite in Nanoput: Communicating Synthesis and the Nanoscale to the Layperson395
Stephanie H. Chanteau, Troy Ruths, and James M. Tour
The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Blackwater Escape401
Thomas G. Waddell and Thomas R. Rybolt
The Strange Case of Mole Airlines Flight 1023407
Karl F. Jones
JCE Classroom Activity
Apple Fool! An Introduction to Artificial Flavors408A
Elemental ZOO409
Terry L. Helser
Find the Symbols of Elements Using a Letter Matrix Puzzle411
V. D. Kelkar

 In The Classroom
Terminology: Four Puzzles from One Wordsearch414
Terry L. Helser
Genetic Code Wordsearch417
Terry L. Helser
Electron Transport Wordsearch419
Terry L. Helser
The Name Game: Learning the Connectivity between the Concepts421
Marina C. Koether
The Molecular Model Game423
Stephanie A. Myers
Safety Tips
A Laboratory Safety Trivia Game425
Kristin I. Gublo
Organic Functional Group Playing Card Deck426
Michael J. Welsh
Spiral Puzzle for Organic Chemistry Students428
Ender Erdik
Tested Demonstrations
Using Demonstrations to Promote Student Comprehension in Chemistry431
Letta Sue Meyer, Stan Schmidt, Fred Nozawa, and Doug Panee
Tested Demonstrations
Solvent Extraction Using Safe and Commonly Available Materials To Demonstrate the Difference in Solubility of Two Mixed Solutes436
Dante Gilbert L. de Leon and Armando M. Guidote Jr.

 In the Laboratory
Was the Suspect in Contact with the Victim? An Instrumental Methods Experiment for the Analysis of Single Fibers Using FT-IR Microscopy437
Sharin Bender and Sheri J. Lillard
Analysis of Carbon Monoxide in Blood441
Benjamin P. Huddle and Joseph C. Stephens
Identification of Forensic Samples via Mitochondrial DNA in the Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory444
Julie T. Millard and André M. Pilon
JCE WebWare
Featured Molecules: Sucrose and Vanillin446
William F. Coleman and Randall J. Wildman
Like Dissolves Like: A Guided Inquiry Experiment for Organic Chemistry447
Ingrid Montes, Chunqiu Lai, and David Sanabria

 Research: Science and Education
Rules of Thumb for Assessing Equilibrium Partitioning of Organic Compounds: Successes and Pitfalls450
Kai-Uwe Goss and René P. Schwarzenbach

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
JCE WebWare
From Our Peer-Reviewed Collection456
William F. Coleman and Randall J. Wildman
JCE WebWare
Equilibrium456
Matthew Sandberg and Michael K. Bellamy
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