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Cover
July 2007
Vol. 84 No. 7


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Celebrate Communication!1079
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Small Adjustments, Big Improvements1081
Laura E. Slocum and Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances. Ingenious New Delivery System for Antioxidant SOD; Toward Development of an Anticancer "Egg"; Vegetable Soup Chemical Reactions1082
Angela G. King
Report
The Future of U.S. Chemistry Research: Benchmarks and Challenges1089
Charles P. Casey, Joseph S. Francisco, and Tina M. Masciangioli
Association Report: ACS Education Division
Chemistry Education: Experiments Worth Running1090
Mary M. Kirchhoff
Report: ACS Community Activities
Celebrating 20 Years of National Chemistry Week1092
Ingrid Montes and Judith Jankowski
Report
High School Day, Chicago ACS Meeting1094
Linda Bennett, Ami LeFevre, and Lee R. Marek
Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Committee Reports, March 20071096
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Calcium Carbonate1102
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Orthophosphoric Acid (85%)1103
Jay A. Young
The Information Page1104
News & Announcements1105
Letters
Research at Two-Year Colleges1108
Jane Slezak
Letters
Research at Two-Year Colleges1108
Onofrio G. Gaglione
Letters
Teaching Chemistry Lab Safety1108
Henry A. Carter
Letters
Markovnikov's Rule1109
Robert C. Kerber
Letters
Markovnikov's Rule1109
Predrag-Peter Ilich
Book & Media Reviews
The Periodic Table at a Glance (M. A. Beckett and A. W. G. Platt)1110
L. L. Pesterfield
Book & Media Reviews
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 (Robert E. Schofield)1110
A. Truman Schwartz
Advertising in This Issue1112
Out of the Editor's Basket1113

 Chemistry for Everyone
Secondary School Chemistry
Determining the Pressure inside an Unopened Carbonated Beverage1117
Hans de Grys
Mentos and the Scientific Method: A Sweet Combination1120
Jack F. Eichler, Heather Patrick, Brenda Harmon, and Janet Coonce
Products of Chemistry
The Chemistry of Swimming Pool Maintenance1124
Carl Salter and David L. Langhus

 In the Classroom
Defining and Teaching pH1129
Richard F. Burton
First-Year Chemistry
Enhancing Student Performance in First-Semester General Chemistry Using Active Feedback through the World Wide Web1130
Kent A. Chambers and Bob Blake
View from My Classroom
Connecting Acids and Bases with Encapsulation… and Chemistry with Nanotechnology1136
Brett Criswell
View from My Classroom
Mistake of Having Students Be Mendeleev for Just a Day1140
Brett Criswell
News from the Periodic Table: An Introduction to "Periodicity Symbols, Tables, and Models for Higher-Order Valency and Donor–Acceptor Kinships"1145
Henry A. Bent and Frank Weinhold
Mass-Elastic Band Thermodynamics: A Visual Teaching Aid at the Introductory Level1147
William C. Galley
Effective Use of Demonstration Assessments in the Classroom Relative to Laboratory Topics1150
David T. Pierce and Thomas W. Pierce

 In the Laboratory
A Student Laboratory Experiment Based on the Vitamin C Clock Reaction1156
Ed Vitz
Vanillin Synthesis from 4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde1158
Douglass F. Taber, Shweta Patel, Travis M. Hambleton, and Emma E. Winkel
Resveratrol Photoisomerization: An Integrative Guided-Inquiry Experiment1159
Elyse Bernard, Philip Britz-McKibbin, and Nicholas Gernigon
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Resveratrol1161
William F. Coleman
Quantitative Measurement of Trans-Fats by Infrared Spectroscopy1162
Edward B. Walker, Don R. Davies, and Mike Campbell
Circuit Board Analysis for Lead by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy in a Course for Nonscience Majors1165
Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer
Absorption and Scattering Coefficients: A Biophysical-Chemistry Experiment Using Reflectance Spectroscopy1167
Gabriela B. Cordon and M. Gabriela Lagorio
An Advanced Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Experiment Exploring NIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics1171
Randall Wanke and Jennifer Stauffer
From the Research Bench to the Teaching Laboratory: Gold Nanoparticle Layering1174
Maria Oliver-Hoyo and Ralph W. Gerber
Cost-Effective Teacher
Building a Low-Cost, Six-Electrode Instrument To Measure Electrical Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Gold Nanoparticles1177
Ralph W. Gerber and Maria Oliver-Hoyo
A Bioanalytical Chemistry Experiment for Undergraduate Students: Biosensors Based on Metal Nanoparticles1180
John Njagi, John Warner, and Silvana Andreescu
Modifying Optical Properties of ZnO Films by Forming Zn1-xCoxO Solid Solutions via Spray Pyrolysis1183
Anne K. Bentley, Gabriela C. Weaver, Cianán B. Russell, William L. Fornes, Kyoung-Shin Choi, and Susan M. Shih
Analysis and Identification of Acid–Base Indicator Dyes by Thin-Layer Chromatography1186
Daniel D. Clark
Imidazole as a pH Probe: An NMR Experiment for the General Chemistry Laboratory1188
William J. Hagan, Jr., Dennis L. Edie, and Linda B. Cooley
An Introduction to Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares: Spectrophotometric Study of the Acid–Base Equilibria of 8-Hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic Acid1190
Cristina Rodríguez-Rodríguez, José Manuel Amigo, Jordi Coello, and Santiago Maspoch

 Research: Science and Education
Multivariate Curve Resolution Methods Illustrated Using Infrared Spectra of an Alcohol Dissolved in Carbon Tetrachloride1193
Bjørn Grung, Egil Nodland, and Geir Martin Førland
The Mechanism of Covalent Bonding: Analysis within the Hückel Model of Electronic Structure1201
Sture Nordholm, Andreas Bäck, and George B. Bacskay
Chemical Education Research
A Study of Turkish Chemistry Undergraduates' Understanding of Entropy1204
Mustafa Sözbilir and Judith M. Bennett
Teaching a Modified Hendrickson, Cram, and Hammond Curriculum in Organic Chemistry. Curriculum Redesign To Turn Around Student Performance1209
Joel M. Karty, Gene Gooch, and B. Gray Bowman
The Molecular Weight Distribution of Polymer Samples1217
Arturo Horta and M. Alejandra Pastoriza

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Constructing a High-Sensitivity, Computer-Interfaced, Differential Thermal Analysis Device for Teaching and Research1222
L. M. Martínez, M. Videa, F. Mederos, and J. Mesquita
Reaction-Map of Organic Chemistry1224
Steven Murov
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Calculating Interaction Energies Using First Principle Theories: Consideration of Basis Set Superposition Error and Fragment Relaxation1225
J. Phillip Bowen, Jennifer B. Sorensen, and Karl N. Kirschner
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Demystifying Some Advanced Undergraduate Chemical Computations1230
Theresa Julia Zielinski
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Construction of the Electronic Radial Wave Functions and Probability Distributions of Hydrogen-like Systems1231
Thomas S. Kuntzleman
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
A Brief Introduction to the Gaussian Distribution, Sample Statistics, and the Student's t Statistic1231
Scott E. Van Bramer
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Exploring the Harmonic Oscillator Wave Functions1232
Theresa Julia Zielinski
JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Particle-in-a-Box Dynamics1232
David M. Hanson and Theresa Julia Zielinski
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5/29/2007
6/7/2007
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