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Cover
November 1999
Vol. 76 No. 11


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Reaching Out1469
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers1471
J. Emory Howell
Reports from Other Journals
Nanotechnology1472
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
CHEMED '991474
Ron Perkins
From Past Issues
International Journal or Small-Town Newspaper?1476
Kathryn R. Williams
Science for Kids in a Two-Year College1477
Jeanette C. Madea
NSF Highlights
Teaching Students to Use Electrochemistry as a Probe of Molecular Behavior1478
Grant N. Holder
WebCASPAR: NSF's Educational Database Engine1479
Donald J. Wink
News & Announcements1480
Letters1483
Information Page1486
Book and Media Reviews
A Biography of Distinguished Scientist Gilbert Newton Lewis (by Edward S. Lewis)1487
reviewed by Harold H. Harris
Book and Media Reviews
Metallocenes (by Nicholas J. Long)1488
reviewed by Daniel Rabinovich
Book and Media Reviews
Introduction to Chemical Principles, 6th Edition (by H. Stephen Stoker)1488
reviewed by Wheeler Conover
Book and Media Reviews
Environmental Chemical Analysis (by B. B. Kebbekus and S. Mitra)1489
reviewed by Nathan W. Bower
Advertising in This Issue1490
Book and Media Reviews
Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures (by Dilip Kodepudi and Ilya Prigogine)1491
reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments, 3rd Edition (by Kenneth L. Williamson)1492
reviewed by James Keeffe

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Products of Chemistry
The Chemistry of Modern Dental Filling Materials1497
John W. Nicholson and H. Mary Anstice
Piltdown Man: Combining the Instruction of Scientific Ethics and Qualitative Analysis1501
John B. Vincent
What Is It Used for? A Consumer-Chemical Hunt1503
Arthur M. Last
JCE Classroom Activity
Hunting for Chemicals in Consumer Products1504A
Arthur M. Last
Chemistry for Kids
Science for Kids Outreach Programs: College Students Teaching Science to Elementary Students and Their Parents1505
Birgit G. Koehler, Lee Y. Park, and Lawrence J. Kaplan

 In The Classroom
Applications and Analogies
Henry's Law and Noisy Knuckles1509
Doris R. Kimbrough
Phosphate Buffers and Telephone Poles - A Useful Analogy with Limitations1511
Edwin S. Gould
View from My Classroom
Investigating the Cuprammonium Rayon Process in a High School Laboratory1512
Lauren J. Pickard and Mary E. Harris

 In the Laboratory
Secondary School Chemistry
Lightstick Kinetics1514
Charles E. Roser and Catherine L. McCluskey
A Simple Experiment for Ion Migration1516
Karl E. Bessler and Daniel de Oliveira Campos
The Enthalpy of Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide: A General Chemistry Calorimetry Experiment1517
Charles J. Marzzacco
The Blue Bottle Reaction as a General Chemistry Experiment on Reaction Mechanisms1519
Steven C. Engerer and A. Gilbert Cook
Safety Tips
Synthetic Fingernails as a Fire Hazard in the Chemistry Laboratory1521
William G. Vanover, Jason L. Woods, and Shawn B. Allin
The Preparation of a UV-Light-Absorbing Polymer: A Project-Oriented Laboratory Experiment for the Introductory Organic Chemistry Curriculum1523
Thomas Poon, Jean P. McIntyre, Andrea Dorigo, Drew J. Davis, Matthew A. Davis, Crystal F. Eller, Leah R. Eller, Heather K. Izumi, Kenya M. Jones, Kurt H. Kelley, William Massello, Megan L. Melamed, Cynthia M. Norris, Jeffrey A. Oelrich, Thomas A. Pluim, Sarah E. Poplawski, Jason M. St. Clair, Matthew P. Stokes, Wells C. Wheeler, and Erin E. Wilkes
"New" Compounds from Old Plastics: Recycling PET Plastics via Depolymerization. An Activity for the Undergraduate Organic Lab1525
Don Kaufman, Geoff Wright, Ryan Kroemer, and Josh Engel
Effect of Plasticizers on the Properties of Polystyrene Films1526
Jeffrey Csernica and Alisha Brown
Basic Rheology of Polymer Melts. An Introductory Polymer Science Experiment1528
S. Commereuc
Reticulation Study and Molding of Unsaturated Polyester Composites1533
S. Bistac
Teaching Light Scattering to Exemplify and Reinforce Basic Principles1534
Drew S. Poche, Paul S. Russo, Brian Fong, Elena Temyanko, and Holly Ricks
A Colorful Ion Exchange Experiment1538
Adélio Mendes
The Solubility of Ionic Solids and Molecular Liquids1540
C. Baer and Sheila M. Adamus
Demonstrating Chemical and Analytical Concepts in the Undergraduate Laboratory Using Capillary Electrophoresis and Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography1542
Christopher P. Palmer
Antacids Revisited with Modern Chemical Instruments: GCMS, AAS, and CCT1544
Stanley L. Burden and Christopher J. Petzold
The Separation and Identification of Some Brominated and Chlorinated Compounds by GC/MS: An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory1547
Rebecca M. O'Malley and Hsiao C. Lin
Reflectance Spectroscopy Using Wine Bottle Glass: An Undergraduate Experiment1551
María Gabriela Lagorio
Selection of an Analysis Wavelength: An Interesting Example Involving Solvatochromism and the Zwitterionic Dimroth-Reichardt's Betaine ET-30 Dye1555
Taihe Deng and William E. Acree Jr.
The Preparation of Lidocaine1557
Thomas J. Reilly
A Novel Target Synthesis Laboratory for Students1558
C. Mark Smales and David R. K. Harding
Parallel Combinatorial Esterification: A Simple Experiment for Use in the Second-Semester Organic Chemistry Laboratory1560
David M. Birney and Stephen D. Starnes
A Structure-Function Study of RecA: The Structural Basis for ATP Specificity in the Strand Exchange Reaction1562
Julie Gegner, Natalie Spruill, and Leigh A. Plesniak
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
An in Vivo 13C NMR Analysis of the Anaerobic Yeast Metabolism of 1-13C-Glucose1564
Brent J. Giles, Zenziwe Matsche, Ryan D. Egeland, Ryan A. Reed, Scott S. Morioka, and Richard L. Taber

 Research: Science and Education
The Gibbs Phase Rule Revisited: Interrelationships between Components and Phases1567
Joseph S. Alper
Thermochemical Radii of Complex Ions1570
Helen K. Roobottom, H. Donald B. Jenkins, Jack Passmore, and Leslie Glasser
A New Look at Reaction Rates1574
Tomislav Cvitas
A Streamlined Approach to Solving Simple and Complex Kinetic Systems Analytically1578
John Andraos

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
The Simulation of Dynamic Systems1584
Sidney Toby and Frina S. Toby
Chemical Information Instructor
Teaching Chemical Information in a Liberal Arts Curriculum1590
Alison Scott Ricker and Robert Q. Thompson
Computer Bulletin Board
Estimating Parameter Precision in Nonlinear Least Squares with Excel's Solver1594
Robert de Levie
JCE Online
Now That I Have It, What Can I Do with It?1599
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Viscosity Measurement: A Virtual Experiment: Abstract of Issue 99071600
N. Papadopoulos, A. T. Pitta, N. Markopoulos, M. Limniou, M. A. N. D. A. Lemos, F. Lemos, and F. G. Freire
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October 12, 1999
June 22, 2005
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