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Chemical Education Today
The Physics Teacher: To a Physics Teacher a Mass Is Mass. To a Chemistry Teacher a Mass Is a Mess
Roy W. Clark
Murfreesboro, TN 37130-4531

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January 2003
Vol. 80 No. 1
p. 14

Abstract
Physics differs from chemistry in that physicists focus upon the general properties of the experimental material, such as mass and density, while chemists working with the same material will focus on its composition and more subtle, transient properties. Two of the selections from The Physics Teacher: illustrate this mind-set (fluorescent lights and the floating-dissolving conundrum); the other illustrates a problem common to both species of scientist—the measurement of temperature.
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*  Citation
Clark, Roy W. J. Chem. Educ. 2003 80 14.
*  Keywords
Fluorescence Spectrometry; Industrial Chemistry; Instrumental Methods; Mercury
*  History
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December 5, 2002
February 28, 2005
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