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September 2003
Vol. 80 No. 9


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
A Report on Reports975
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Preparing Students for Success977
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals
Chemistry Problem-Solving: Symbol, Macro, Micro, and Process Aspects978
William R. Robinson
ACS Presidential Election
Education: Central to the Central Science984
William F. Carroll, Jr.
ACS Presidential Election
We Must Be Doers, Not Merely Observers985
Michael E. Strem
Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Summer 2003987
Steve Long
C3S and Two-Year Colleges: A Partnership for Progress990
Tamar Y. Susskind
ChemTechLinks: Alliances for Chemical Technician Education993
Tamara Nameroff
Ask the Historian
The KLM-Shell Labels996
William B. Jensen
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Sodium Cyanide997
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Potassium Cyanide998
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements999
Letters
Spectrum Analysis Discoverer?1003
H. L. Retcofsky
Letters
Neptunium and Fundamental Measurements1003
T. M. Hamilton
The Information Page1004
Book and Media Reviews
Scientists Must Write: A Guide to Better Writing for Scientists, Engineers and Students (Robert Barrass)1005
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Science & Technology Research: Writing Strategies for Students (Tina Neville, Deborah Henry, and Bruce Neville)1005
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Writing Recommendation Letters: A Faculty Handbook (Joe Schall)1005
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Organotransition Metal Chemistry (Basic Concepts in Chemistry (Anthony F. Hill)1005
Daniel Rabinovich
Book and Media Reviews
Foundations of Spectroscopy (Oxford Chemistry Primers No. 78) (Simon Duckett and Bruce Gilbert)1006
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Introduction to Macromolecular Crystallography (Alexander McPherson)1007
Arthur Glasfeld
Book and Media Reviews
Outline of Crytallography for Biologists (David Blow)1007
Arthur Glasfeld
Book and Media Reviews
Orgo Cards: Organic Chemistry Review (Steven Q. Wang, Babak Razani, Edward J. K. Lee, Jennifer Wu, and William Berkowitz)1009
Eugene Gooch
Advertising in This Issue1010
Out of the Editor's Basket1011

 Chemistry for Everyone
Lithium Batteries: A Practical Application of Chemical Principles1015
Richard S. Treptow

 In The Classroom
Applications and Analogies
Learning Stoichiometry with Hamburger Sandwiches1021
Liliana Haim, Eduardo Cortón, Santiago Kocmur, and Lydia Galagovsky
Simulating Chromatographic Separations in the Classroom1023
Charles A. Smith and F. Warren Villaescusa
An Exercise on Chemometrics for a Quantitative Analysis Course1026
Robert A. Cazar
Two Linear Correlation Coefficients1030
Robert de Levie
JCE Classroom Activity
Diffusion of Water through a Differentially Permeable Membrane1032A
Maria Guadalupe Bertoluzzo, Fabio E. Quattrin, Stella Maris Bertoluzzo, and Ruben Rigatuso
A Global Least-Squares Fit for Absolute Zero1033
Carl Salter
Multiple Linear Least-Squares Fits with a Common Intercept: Determination of the Intrinsic Viscosity of Macromolecules in Solution1036
M. C. López Martínez, F. G. Díaz Baños, A. Ortega Retuerta, and J. García de la Torre

 In the Laboratory
A Discovery Approach to Three Organic Laboratory Techniques: Extraction, Recrystallization, and Distillation1039
Gail Horowitz
The Kinetics of Dissolution Revisited1042
Paula S. Antonel, Pablo A. Hoijemberg, Leandro M. Maiante, and M. Gabriela Lagorio
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Synthesis, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics: An Advanced Laboratory Investigation of the Cis–Trans Isomerization of Mo(CO)4(PR3)2 1044
Ashfaq A. Bengali and Kim E. Mooney
Reproportionation of Copper(I)1048
Jan Malyszko and Maria Kaczor
The Solubility Product of PbCl2 from Electrochemical Measurements1051
Jimmy S. Hwang and Ghassan A. Oweimreen
An Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment on Surfactants: Electrochemical Study of a Commercial Soap1053
Pablo C. Schulz and Danièle Clausse

 Research: Science and Education
A Graphical Presentation of the Born–Haber Cycle for Estimating the Electrode Potentials of Metals1057
Michael Laing
An Elementary Picture of Dielectric Spectroscopy in Solids: Physical Basis1062
Mario F. García-Sánchez, Jean-Claude M'Peko, A. Rabdel Ruiz-Salvador, Froilan Fernández-Gutierrez, Geonel Rodríguez-Gattorno, Adolfo Delgado, and Yuri Echevarría
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Photochemical Kinetics: Reaction Orders and Analogies with Molecular Beam Scattering and Cavity Ring-Down Experiments1074
Michael Hippler
Chemical Education Research
Systemic Reform in Chemical Education: An International Perspective1078
A. F. M. Fahmy and J. J. Lagowski
Chemical Education Research
A Web-Based Chemistry Course as a Means To Foster Freshmen Learning1084
Yehudit Judy Dori, Miri Barak, and Noam Adir

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
JCE WebWare
From Our Peer-Reviewed Collection1093
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare
SpecScan: A Utility Program for Generating Numerical Data from Printed Forms of Spectra or Other Signals1093
Constantinos E. Efstathiou
JCE WebWare
Featured Molecules: Crystal Violet, Fluorenone, and Fluorene1094
William F. Coleman
JCE Software
Dynamic Visualization in Chemistry Abstract of Special Issue 31, a CD-ROM for Mac OS and Windows1095
James P. Birk, Debra E. Leedy, Rachel A. Morgan, Mark Drake, Fiona Lihs, Eleisha J. Nickoles, and Michael J. McKelvy
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