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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2003  > July  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 July 2003
Vol. 80 No. 7

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Preparation of Chemistry Teachers719
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Read It—Share It721
Erica K. Jacobsen
From Past Issues
Caricatures from the Past722
Kathryn R. Williams
Executive Committee Report, April 2003724
Richard F. Jones, Thomas Holme, and Jerry L. Sarquis
Enhancing Graduate Education in Chemistry: The ACS Office of Graduate Education729
Tamara Nameroff
Ask the Historian
The Universal Gas Constant R731
William B. Jensen
News From Online
News from Online: Untangling the Web: The National Digital Libraries Initiative733
Dean H. Johnston
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Carbon Disulfide735
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Diethyl Phthalate736
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Acrylonitrile737
Jay A. Young
The Information Page738
News and Announcements739
Letters
Improved Hittorf Apparatus742
Morris Bader
Letters
Improved Hittorf Apparatus742
Kan Jinquing
Letters
Hydrogen–Oxygen Balloon Hazards743
Garry Garrett
Corrections
Correction to "Rules of Thumb for Assessing Equilibrium Partitioning of Organic Compounds: Successes and Pitfalls" (J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 450)743
Book and Media Reviews
Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks: The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry (Cathy Cobb)745
A. Truman Schwartz
Book and Media Reviews
Conceptual Chemistry: Understanding Our World of Atoms and Molecules (John Suchocki)746
Norbert J. Pienta
Book and Media Reviews
Inorganic Chemistry (Catherine E. Housecroft and Alan G. Sharpe)747
Craig E. Barnes
Advertising in This Issue748
Out of the Editor's Basket749

 Chemistry for Everyone
The History of Molecular Structure Determination Viewed through the Nobel Prizes753
William P. Jensen, Gus J. Palenik, and Il-Hwan Suh
The History of Optical Analysis of Milk: The Development and Use of Lactoscopes762
C. Millan-Verdś, Ll. Garrig—s-Oltra, G. Blanes-Nadal, and M. Domingo-Beltr‡n

 In The Classroom
Tested Demonstrations
Demonstrating Heterogeneous Gas-Phase Catalysis with the Gas Reaction Catalyst Tube768
Bruce Mattson, Jiro Fujita, Rebecca Catahan, Wes Cheng, Jacklyn Greimann, Paras Khandhar, Andrew Mattson, Anand Rajani, Patrick Sullivan, and Ron Perkins
Tested Demonstrations
Ignition of Hydrogen Balloons by Model-Rocket-Engine Igniters774
Nicholas T. Hartman
Resources for Student Assessment
Three Forms of Energy776
Sigth—r PŽtursson
JCE WebWare
Featured Molecules: Penicillin and Vitamin B12778
William F. Coleman
Teaching Introductory Organic Chemistry: 'Blooming' beyond a Simple Taxonomy779
Michael D. Pungente and Rodney A. Badger
Evaluation of Student Learning in Organic Chemistry Using the SOLO Taxonomy785
Linda C. Hodges and Lilia C. Harvey

 In the Laboratory
Kinetics of Platinum-Catalyzed Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide788
Tiffany A. Vetter and D. Philip Colombo Jr.
Decomposition Kinetics of Hydrogen Peroxide: Novel Lab Experiments Employing Computer Technology790
Dorota A. Abramovitch, Latrice K. Cunningham, and Mitchell R. Litwer
Laboratory Sequence in Computational Methods for Introductory Chemistry793
Jason A. Cody and Dawn C. Wiser
Synthesis of Zinc Iodide Revisited796
Stephen DeMeo
An Experiment for the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory: The Sunlight-Induced Photosynthesis of (η2-C60)M(CO)5 Complexes (M = Mo, W) 799
José E. Cortés-Figueroa
Cyclopalladation of Phenyl-(2,4,6-trimethylbenzylidene)-amine: An Undergraduate Organometallic Laboratory Experiment801
Joan Albert, Magali Cadena, and Jaume Granell
Studying a Ligand Substitution Reaction with Variable Temperature 1H NMR Spectroscopy: An Experiment for Undergraduate Inoganic Chemistry Students803
Jeffery A. Orvis, Basant Dimetry, Jeffery Winge, and T. Corbin Mullis
Spin-Coating of Polystyrene Thin Films as an Advanced Undergraduate Experiment806
Mriganka Chakraborty, Devasish Chowdhury, and Arun Chattopadhyay
Tensile Strength Measurements on Biopolymer Films810
Eugene S. Stevens and Mark D. Poliks
Study of Polymer Glasses by Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry in the Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory813
J. C. W. Folmer and Stefan Franzen
Characterizing the Behavior and Properties of an Excited Electronic State: Electron-Transfer Mediated Quenching of Fluorescence819
Lars Poulsen, Arantza Zabala Ruiz, Steen Uttrup Pedersen, and Peter R. Ogilby

 Research: Science and Education
Acid–Base Titrations in Nonaqueous Solvents and Solvent Mixtures822
Lajos Barcza and Ágnes Buvári-Barcza
Chemical Education Research
The Power of Practice: What Students Learn from How We Teach829
Amy J. Phelps and Cherin Lee
Mass Conservation Implications of a Reaction Mechanism833
William R. Smith and Ronald W. Missen

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
JCE WebWare
From Our Peer-Reviewed Collection839
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare
Copoly: A Tool for Understanding Copolymerization and Monomer Sequence Distribution of Copolymers839
Massoud Miri and Juan A. Morales-Tirado
JCE WebWare
How Accurate Is the Steady State Approximation?839
Lars Ole Haustedt and Jonathan M. Goodman
JCE Online
Only@JCEOnline News840
Jon L. Holmes
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