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Vol. 85 No. 8
Editorial
Mathematics Education 1019
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Playing Matchmaker 1021
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances. Human Urine As a Fertilizer for Food Crops; Faster, More Sensitive Anthrax Detection; Seagulls Monitor Oil Spill Pollutants; Gender Through Feathers 1022
Angela G. King
Association Report: ACS Education Division
The EPA Schools Chemical Cleanout Campaign (SC3) and How You Can Help 1026
Russell W. Phifer and Marta Gmurczyk
Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Committee Reports, May 2008 1028
ACS National Meeting
Program for the Division of Chemical Education Philadelphia, August 17–21, 2008 1034
Julianne M. Smist, Matthew A. Fisher, and D. Paul Rillema
ACS National Meeting
Undergraduate Program: Philadelphia 1040
Lori Betsock
ACS National Meeting
CHED Events: Philadelphia 1041
Donald J. Wink
ACS National Meeting
Presidential Events and Symposia: Philadelphia 1042
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Zinc Chloride 1046
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Zinc Stearate 1047
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements 1048
Letters
An Inexpensive Semiautomatic Pressurized Microfiltration Device 1051
E. Rodríguez-Fernández, M. A. Vicente, J. J. Criado, and J. L. Manzano
Letters
Fluorite Mineral Samples 1051
JCE Editorial Staff
Letters
Comment on "Effect of a Perturbation on the Chemical Equilibrium: Comparison with Le Châtelier's Principle" 1052
Mark J. Uline and David S. Corti
The Information Page 1054
Book & Media Reviews
An Element of Controversy: The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War (Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson, Eds.) 1055
Harry E. Pence
Advertising in This Issue 1056
Out of the Editor's Basket 1057
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Preparation of Conducting Polymers by Electrochemical Methods and Demonstration of a Polymer Battery 1067
Hiromasa Goto, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Fumihiro Togashi, Reina Ohta, Akitsu Tsujimoto, Eiji Kita, and Ken-ichi Ohshima
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation To Reinforce Student Understanding of Intermolecular Forces 1071
Phillip R. Burkholder, Gordon H. Purser, and Renee S. Cole
Disorder and Chaos: Developing and Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on Chemical Dynamics 1078
Steven G. Desjardins
Using Candy Samples To Learn about Sampling Techniques and Statistical Data Evaluation 1083
Larissa S. Canaes, Marcel L. Brancalion, Adriana V. Rossi, and Susanne Rath
JCE Classroom Activity
[#97] The Sweeter Side of Density 1088A
Michael Davis and Charles Henry
Measuring the Density of a Sugar Solution. A General Chemistry Experiment Using a Student-Prepared Unknown 1089
Karen I. Peterson
Classroom Activity Extension
Make a Match 1090
Erica K. Jacobsen
Simple Potentiometric Determination of Reducing Sugars 1091
Henry Moresco, Pedro Sansón, and Gustavo Seoane
An Exercise on Structure Elucidation Based on a Tricky Aldol Reaction 1094
Manuel González Sierra, Silvina C. Pellegrinet, María I. Colombo, and Edmundo A. Rúveda
Determination of Phosphates by the Gravimetric Quimociac Technique 1097
Lee Alan Shaver
Green Chemistry
Greener Alternative to Qualitative Analysis for Cations without H2 S and Other Sulfur-Containing Compounds 1099
Indu Tucker Sidhwani and Sushmita Chowdhury
Construction of a Polyaniline Nanofiber Gas Sensor 1102
Shabnam Virji, Bruce H. Weiller, Jiaxing Huang, Richard Blair, Heather Shepherd, Tanya Faltens, Philip C. Haussmann, Richard B. Kaner, and Sarah H. Tolbert
Preparation of Electrically Conductive Polystyrene/Carbon Nanofiber Nanocomposite Films 1105
Luyi Sun, Jonathan Y. O'Reilly, Chi-Wei Tien, and Hung-Jue Sue
Selective Etching via Soft Lithography of Conductive Multilayered Gold Films with Analysis of Electrolyte Solutions 1108
Ralph W. Gerber and Maria T. Oliver-Hoyo
Gold Electrodes Modified with Self-Assembled Monolayers for Measuring L -Ascorbic Acid. An Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment 1112
Takashi Ito, D. M. Neluni T. Perera, and Shinobu Nagasaka
Introducing Undergraduate Students to Electrochemistry: A Two-Week Discovery Chemistry Experiment 1116
Kenneth V. Mills, Richard S. Herrick, Louise W. Guilmette, Lisa P. Nestor, Heather Shafer, and Mauri A. Ditzler,
Data Pooling in a Chemical Kinetics Experiment: The Aquation of a Series of Cobalt(III) Complexes. A Discovery Chemistry Experiment 1120
Richard S. Herrick, Kenneth V. Mills, and Lisa P. Nestor
Kinetics and Mechanism of Iodide Oxidation by Iron(III): A Clock Reaction Approach 1123
Jurica Bauer, Vladislav Tomišić, and Petar B. A. Vrkljan
The Microscale Laboratory
Kinetic Study of the Heck Reaction: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1126
Christel Gozzi and Naoual Bouzidi
Cost-Effective Teacher
An Inexpensive Solution Calorimeter 1129
Emma Kavanagh, Sam Mindel, Giles Robertson, and D. E. Peter Hughes
JCE Concept Connections
Calorimetry 1130
JCE Editorial Staff
Cost-Effective Teacher
An Updated Equilibrium Machine 1131
Emeric Schultz
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