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January 2004
Vol. 81 No. 1


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
New Year's Resolution: Expunge Misbeliefs7
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Food and More for Thought9
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals
Cognitive Theory and the Design of Multimedia Instruction10
William R. Robinson
Commentary
The Concept of Density14
Stephen J. Hawkes
Report
JCE Digital Library Grand Opening17
JCE Editorial Staff
Executive Committee Report, October 200318
Jerry L. Sarquis, Mary Nakhleh, and Thomas A. Holme
Ask the Historian
The Symbol for pH21
William B. Jensen
NSF Highlights
Including Non-Traditional Instrumentation in Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry Courses22
J. David Jenkins, Jessica N. Orvis, C. Jimmy Smith, Citabria Manley, and Jeanette K. Rice
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Triethanolamine24
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Stearic Acid25
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements26
The Information Page30
Letters
Another Variation on the "Whoosh Bottle" Theme31
Edward G. Senkbeil
Letters
Another Variation on the "Whoosh Bottle" Theme31
Dean J. Campbell
Letters
Don't Be Tricked by Your Integrated Rate Plot: Pitfalls of Using Integrated Rate Plots32
Gabor Lente
Letters
Don't Be Tricked by Your Integrated Rate Plot: Reaction order Ambiguity32
Sue Le Vent
Letters
Don't Be Tricked by Your Integrated Rate Plot32
Edward Urbansky
Letters
The "Dissing" of Niels Bohr33
Andrew R. Peterson
Letters
Three-Dimensional Model for Water: Magnets as Chemical Bonds34
Roy W. Clark
Letters
Three-Dimensional Model for Water: Magnets as Dipoles34
Samuel H. Yalkowsky and Jennifer L. H. Johnson
Letters
Cohesive and Adhesive Forces versus Surface Tension Gradients—Revisited35
Todd P. Silverstein
Letters
Coulometric Titrations in Wine Samples35
Gabriel Gojon
Book and Media Reviews
Hydrogen: The Essential Element (John S. Rigden)36
A. Truman Schwartz
Book and Media Reviews
The Practice of Chemistry (Donald J. Wink, Sharon Fetzer-Gislason, and Sheila D. McNicholas)36
Christine M. Ingersoll
Book and Media Reviews
Teaching and Learning in the Science Laboratory (Science & Technology Education Library, Vol. 16) (Hans Niedderer and Dimitris Psillos)37
Thomas H. Eberlein
Book and Media Reviews
Food: The Chemistry of Its Components, 4th Edition (T. P. Coultrate)39
Richard Pagni
Advertising in This Issue40
Out of the Editor's Basket41

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chemistry Perfumes Your Daily Life45
Anne-Dominique Fortineau
Chemistry at a Science Museum51
Robert G. Silberman, Charles Trautmann, and Susan M. Merkel
Chemistry as General Education54
Nivaldo J. Tro
Featured Molecules
Featured Molecules: Perfume Chemistry: Jasmone, α–Damascone, Geraniol, Civetone, and Musk Baur57
William F. Coleman

 In The Classroom
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Using Conductivity Devices in Nonaqueous Solutions I: Demonstrating the SN1 Mechanism58
Thomas A. Newton and Beth Ann Hill
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Using Conductivity Devices in Nonaqueous Solutions II: Demonstrating the SN2 Mechanism61
Thomas A. Newton and Beth Ann Hill
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Low-Voltage Conductivity Device. Editor's Note about Using Conductivity Devices in Nonaqueous Solutions63
Ed Vitz and Melissa Kistler
JCE Classroom Activity
Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold64A
Robert G. Silberman
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
An Acid Hydrocarbon: A Chemical Paradox65
Jeffrey T. Burke
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Tears of Wine67
Marcos Gugliotti
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Promoting Graphical Thinking: Using Temperature and a Graphing Calculator To Teach Kinetics Concepts69
José E. Cortés-Figueroa and Deborah A. Moore-Russo
Modeling Chemical and Biological Systems: A Successful Course for Undergraduate Students72
Maria João Ramos, Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, and André Melo
From Metalloproteins to Coordination Chemistry: A Learning Exercise To Teach Transition Metal Chemistry76
John Reglinski, Duncan Graham, Alan R. Kennedy, and Lorraine T. Gibson

 In the Laboratory
The Preparation and Testing of a Common Emulsion and Personal Care Product: Lotion83
Suzanne T. Mabrouk
Investigation of Imposter Perfumes Using GC–MS87
Kelley A. Mowery, Daniel E. Blanchard, Stephanie Smith, and Thomas A. Betts
The Determination of Caffeine in Coffee: Sense or Nonsense?90
Jozef L. Beckers
Acid–Base and Precipitation Equilibria in Wine94
Miguel Palma and Carmelo G. Barroso
A Didactic Experience of Statistical Analysis for the Determination of Glycine in a Nonaqueous Medium Using ANOVA and a Computer Program97
M. J. Santos-Delgado and L. Larrea-Tarruella
A Spectrophotometric Study of the Permanganate–Oxalate Reaction: An Analytical Laboratory Experiment100
Gene E. Kalbus, Van T. Lieu, and Lee H. Kalbus
Separation and Identification of a Mixture of Group 6 Transition-Metal Carbonyl Compounds Using GC–MS in the General Chemistry Curriculum103
Lawrence K. Fong
Cost-Effective Teacher
Using a Disposable Pipet for Preparing Air-Sensitive Compounds for Melting Point Determinations or Storage106
Martial Sanz
An Efficient Procedure for Microscale Synthesis of Semicarbazones108
Sangeeta Pandita, Samta Goyal, Nadira Arif, and Sarita Passey
The Microscale Laboratory
The Separation and Identification of Two Unknown Solid Organic Compounds: An Experiment for the Sophomore Organic Chemistry Laboratory109
Patty L. Feist
The Microscale Laboratory
Microscale Synthesis of 1-Bromo-3-chloro-5-iodobenzene: An Improved Deamination of 4-Bromo-2-chloro-6-iodoaniline111
Michael W. Pelter, Libbie S.W. Pelter, Dusanka Colovic, and Regina Strug
LabWorks and the Kundt's Tube: A New Way To Determine the Heat Capacities of Gases113
Philip A. Bryant and Matthew E. Morgan
An Expeditious Experiment To Determine the Faraday Constant116
M. Teresa S. R. Gomes, M. Manuela O. Oliveira, M. Arminda Fonseca, and João A. B. P. Oliveira
The Decomposition of Zinc Carbonate: Using Stoichiometry To Choose between Chemical Formulas119
Stephen DeMeo
Conformational Analysis in an Advanced Integrated Laboratory Course121
David B. Ball and Randy M. Miller

 Research: Science and Education
Concepts in Biochemistry
Outrunning Nature: Directed Evolution of Superior Biocatalysts126
Ryan Woodyer, Wilfred Chen, and Huimin Zhao
A Simplified Approach to Product Operator Formalism134
Christopher E. Spiese
Electron Pairing, Repulsion, and Correlation: A Simplistic Approach138
Lars-Fride Olsson and Lars Kloo
Updated Principle of Corresponding States142
Dor Ben-Amotz, Alan D. Gift, and R. D. Levine
Modeling the Hydrogen Bond within Molecular Dynamics147
Peter Lykos
Thermodynamics of Capillary Rise: Why Is the Meniscus Curved?150
Ulf Henriksson and Jan Christer Eriksson

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Helping Students Learn Mathematically Intensive Aspects of Chemistry155
Theresa Julia Zielinski
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Energies and Wave Functions for Several One-Dimensional Potentials157
Ricardo Metz
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Orbital Graphing158
Mark Ellison
JCE QBank: Resources for Student Assessment
Classroom, Homework, Quiz, and Exam Questions158
JCE Editorial Staff
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Peer-Reviewed JCE WebWare159
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Kinetica: An Excel Program To Simulate or Analyze Kinetic Data159
Leonel R. Vera, Pedro A. Ortega, and Miguel Guzmán
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
DigiDemos Debut160
Ed Vitz
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