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Cover
February 2004
Vol. 81 No. 2


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Broadening Our Molecular Vision167
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
An Earth Day That Counts169
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals
Nature: "Water, Water, Everywhere, nor Any Drop to Drink"170
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
Cover Feature
Water Quality Monitoring by Satellite171
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online: Green Chemistry172
Erich S. Uffelman
Exploring the Molecular Vision: Report from a SOCED Invitational Conference177
Tamara J. Nameroff and Daryle H. Busch
Commentary
Testing, Testing: Good Teaching Is Difficult; So Is Meaningful Testing180
Sidney Toby and Richard J. Plano
NSF Highlights
Microscale Syntheses, Reactions, and 1H NMR Spectroscopic Investigations of Square Planar Macrocyclic Tetraamido-N Cu(III) Complexes Relevant to Green Chemistry182
Erich S. Uffelman, Jonathan R. Doherty, Carl Schultze, Amy L. Burke, Kristen R. Bonnema, Tanya T. Watson, and Daniel W. Lee, III
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chlorine186
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Aluminum Sulfate 18 Hydrate187
Jay A. Young
The Information Page188
News & Announcements189
Report
Earth Day Haiku191
Letters
Questioning an Ultrasonic Lab Setup193
Francisco J. Arnáiz
Letters
Comment on the Hazards of Peroxide Decomposition193
J. C. Jones
Letters
The Power of Study Groups in the Classroom193
Daryl L. Ostercamp
Letters
Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Constructivism and Chemical Education194
Liberato Cardellini
Letters
Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Constructivism and Chemical Education194
Eric Scerri
Letters
Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Does Any of This Matter?194
David J. Eckstrom
Letters
Philosophical Confusion in Chemical Education Research: Does Any of This Matter?195
Eric Scerri
Letters
A Request for Chemical Wisdom196
David Gardner
Letters
A "Polypeptide Demonstrator"196
Addison Ault
Letters
Choice of Citrus Fruit196
E. J. Behrman and C. F. Behrman
Letters
Suggestions To Expand the Laboratory Project 'The Sweetness of Aspartame'197
Todd P. Silverstein
Corrections
Correction to J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 833197
Corrections
Correction to J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 1381197
Book and Media Reviews
Decades of Dioxin. Limelight on a Molecule (Warren B. Crummett)198
Robert W. Baughman
Book and Media Reviews
Sample Preparation Techniques in Analytical Chemistry (Somenath Mitra)199
Jack K. Steehler
Book and Media Reviews
The Basics of Chemistry (Basics of the Hard Sciences) (Richard Myers)200
Wheeler Conover
Book and Media Reviews
Why Chemical Reactions Happen (James Keeler and Peter Wothers)201
John Krenos
Advertising in This Issue202
Out of the Editor's Basket203

 Chemistry for Everyone
Arsenic in Drinking Water—A Global Environmental Problem207
Joanna Shaofen Wang and Chien M. Wai
Chemistry for Kids
Lead-Testing Service to Elementary and Secondary Schools Using Anodic Stripping Voltammetry214
Amanda Goebel, Tracy Vos, Anne Louwagie, Laura Lundbohm, and Jay H. Brown

 In The Classroom
Well Wishes. A Case on Septic Systems and Well Water Requiring In-Depth Analysis and Including Optional Laboratory Experiments218
Mary M. Walczak and Juliette M. Lantz
Integrating Project-Based Service-Learning into an Advanced Environmental Chemistry Course221
Alison J. Draper
JCE Classroom Activity
Water Filtration224A
Erica K. Jacobsen
Pollution Police. How To Determine Spectroscopic Selection Rules225
Jodye I. Selco and Janet Beery
Steam Hydrocarbon Cracking and Reforming228
Michael Golombok

 In the Laboratory
Caring for the Environment While Teaching Organic Chemistry232
Elvira Santos Santos, Irma Cruz Gavilan Garcia, and Eva Florencia Lejarazo Gomez
"Prompted" Inquiry-Based Learning in the Introductory Chemistry Laboratory239
William J. Green, Curtis Elliott, and R. Hays Cummins
Fluorescence, Absorption, and Excitation Spectra of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as a Tool for Quantitative Analysis242
A. M. Rivera-Figueroa, K. A. Ramazan, and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts
Featured Molecules
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons245
William F. Coleman
A Simulation of the Interaction of Acid Rain with Soil Minerals246
Amber L. Schilling, Kenneth R. Hess, Phyllis A. Leber, and Claude H. Yoder
Magnetic Particle Technology. A Simple Preparation of Magnetic Composites for the Adsorption of Water Contaminants248
Luiz C. A. Oliveira, Rachel V. R. A. Rios, José D. Fabris, Rochel M. Lago, and Karim Sapag
The Microscale Laboratory
Laboratory Experiments on the Electrochemical Remediation of the Environment. Part 6: Microscale Production of Ferrate251
Jorge G. Ibanez, Monica Tellez-Giron, Diana Alvarez, and Elizabeth Garcia-Pintor
Electrochemical Removal of Metal Cations from Wastewater Monitored by Differential Pulse Polarography255
Delphine Bruce, Alexander Kuhn, and Neso Sojic
Analysis of an Air Conditioning Coolant Solution for Metal Contamination Using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy. An Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Exercise Simulating an Industrial Assignment259
Michael J. Baird
Determination of Pb in Biological Samples by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. An Exercise in Common Interferences and Fundamental Practices in Trace Element Determination262
Thomas M. Spudich, Jennifer K. Herrmann, Ronald Fietkau, Grant A. Edwards, and David L. McCurdy
LC–MS of Metmyoglobin at pH = 2. Separation and Characterization of Apomyoglobin and Heme by ESI–MS and UV–Vis266
Helen Cleary Stynes, Araceli Layo, and Richard W. Smith
Chemical Equilibrium in Supramolecular Systems as Studied by NMR Spectrometry270
Gustavo González-Gaitano and Gloria Tardajos

 Research: Science and Education
Novel Strategies for the Removal of Toxic Metals from Soils and Waters275
D. Max Roundhill

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
A Program of Computational Chemistry Exercises for the First-Semester General Chemistry Course283
Scott E. Feller, Richard F. Dallinger, and Paul Caylor McKinney
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 2003. Abstract of JCE CD 2003288
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