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Cover
May 2003
Vol. 80 No. 5


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Keeping Current with Chemistry463
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
What Is Chemical Education?465
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature: What Matters in Nature—DNA, Light–Driven Ion Pumps, and Antimatter466
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
Commentary
Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research468
Eric R. Scerri
NSF Highlights
Incorporating Scanning Probe Microscopy into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum478
David W. Lehmpuhl
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Citric Acid480
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Canola Oil481
Jay A. Young
The Information Page482
News and Announcements483
Letters
H Is for Enthalpy (re J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 697)486
Hendrick C. Van Ness
Letters
The author replies to: H Is for Enthalpy (re J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 697)486
Irmgard K. Howard
Letters
Liquid Oxygen Hazards 486
Jonathan Mitschele
Letters
Trivial, Common, and Systematic Chemical Names487
Giovanni Lentini
Letters
Online Annotations to Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chymist487
John S. Davidson
Book and Media Reviews
Physical Chemistry CD (Keith James Laidler, John H. Meiser, and Bryan C. Sanctuary)489
Michael P. McCann
Book and Media Reviews
Chemical Misconceptions—Prevention, Diagnosis and Cure. (Keith Taber)
Volume I: Theoretical Background.
Volume II: Classroom Resources
491
Hal Harris
Book and Media Reviews
Descriptive Inorganic, Coordination, and Solid-State Chemistry, 2nd Edition (Glen E. Rodgers)491
Les L. Pesterfield
Advertising in This Issue492
Out of the Editor's Basket493

 Chemistry for Everyone
Arsenic: Not So Evil After All?497
Annette Lykknes and Lise Kvittingen
Secondary School Chemistry
The Elements Drawing501
Iyad M. Dkeidek

 In The Classroom
The Educational and Moral Significance of the American Chemical Society's The Chemist's Code of Conduct503
Samuel V. Bruton
Integrating Ethics in Science into a Summer Undergraduate Research Program507
Amy M. Shachter
The Chemistry of Fragrances: A Group Exercise for Chemistry Students513
Roger Duprey, Charles S. Sell, and Nigel D. Lowe
Bubble Stripping To Determine Hydrogen Concentrations in Ground Water: A Practical Application of Henry's Law516
Daniel M. McInnes and Don Kampbell
What Is the Overall Stoichiometry of a Complex Reaction?520
Sidney Toby and Irwin Tobias
Rate Controlling Factors in a Bunsen Burner Flame524
Julio Andrade-Gamboa, Hugo L. Corso, and Fabiana C. Gennari
Calculation of the Characteristic Performance Indicators in an Electrochemical Process529
C. M. Sánchez-Sánchez, E. Expósito, J. Solla-Gullón, V. García-García, V. Montiel, and A. Aldaz
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Chemical Equilibria Involving Reactions of Silver(I) Ions534
Roberto Zingales
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Chemical Equilibria Involving Copper(II) Ethylenediamine Complexes535
Roberto Zingales
JCE Classroom Activity
Out of the Blue536A
Mark E. Noble
Tested Demonstrations
Greening the Blue Bottle537
Whitney E. Wellman and Mark E. Noble

 In the Laboratory
Classification of Vegetable Oils by Principal Component Analysis of FTIR Spectra541
David A. Rusak, Leah M. Brown, and Scott D. Martin
The Microscale Laboratory
Quantitative Microscale Hydrogenation of Vegetable Oils544
Daniel E. Blanchard
Milk as a Drug Analysis Medium: HPLC Determination of Isoniazid547
Enzo Sottofattori, Riccardo Raggio, and Olga Bruno
Sailing on the "C": A Vitamin Titration with a Twist550
S. Sowa and A. E. Kondo
Titrimetric Determination of Carbon Dioxide in a Heterogeneous Sample ("Pop Rocks")552
Craig M. Davis and Matthew C. Mauck
The Determination of the pKaof Multiprotic, Weak Acids by Analyzing Potentiometric Acid–Base Titration Data with Difference Plots554
Arno Kraft
A Simple Method for Determination of Solubility in the First-Year Laboratory560
Heather D. Harle, Julia A. Ingram, Phyllis A. Leber, Kenneth R. Hess, and Claude H. Yoder
A Concept-Based Environmental Project for the First-Year Laboratory: Remediation of Barium-Contaminated Soil by In Situ Immobilization561
Heather D. Harle, Phyllis A. Leber, Kenneth R. Hess, and Claude H. Yoder

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Gender Differences in Cognitive and Noncognitive Factors Related to Achievement in Organic Chemistry563
Ronna C. Turner and Harriet A. Lindsay
Chemical Education Research
College Chemistry and Piaget: An Analysis of Gender Difference, Cognitive Abilities, and Achievement Measures Seventeen Years Apart569
Ivan A. Shibley, Jr., Louis M. Milakofsky, David S. Bender, and Henry O. Patterson

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Chemical Information Instructor
An Integrated Chemical Information Program574
Arleen N. Somerville and Susan K. Cardinal
Mathcad in the Chemistry Curriculum
Mathematics in Physical Chemistry580
Theresa Julia Zielinski
Mathcad in the Chemistry Curriculum
Visualizing Particle-in-a-Box Wavefunctions Using Mathcad581
Edmund L. Tisko
Mathcad in the Chemistry Curriculum
Femtochemistry581
Mark David Ellison
JCE WebWare
Mol4D: A Web-Based Computational Chemistry Interface for Educational Purposes582
Hens Borkent, Jack van Rooij, Oliver Stueker, Ingo Brunberg, and Gregor Fels
JCE WebWare
Web-Based Interactive Animation of Organic Reactions583
Oliver Stueker, Ingo Brunberg, Gregor Fels, Hens Borkent, and Jack van Rooij
JCE WebWare
Featured Molecules: Ascorbic Acid and Methylene Blue584
William F. Coleman and Randall J. Wildman
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