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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2003  > September  >
In the Classroom
Applications and Analogies
Learning Stoichiometry with Hamburger Sandwiches
Liliana Haim, Eduardo Cortón, Santiago Kocmur, and Lydia Galagovsky
Centro de Formación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias (CEFIEC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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September 2003
Vol. 80 No. 9
p. 1021
Abstract
Simple and understandable activities involving the manufacturing of hamburgers can be used as an analogy for stoichiometric concepts and calculations.
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 Haim, Liliana; Cortón, Eduardo; Kocmur, Santiago; Galagovsky, Lydia. J. Chem. Educ. 2003 80 1021.
*  Keywords
 General Chemistry; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Problem-Based Learning; Stoichiometry; Teaching / Learning Aids; Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice
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February 28, 2005
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