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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2000  > August  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 August 2000
Vol. 77 No. 8

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Climate Change--Scientific and Political943
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers945
J. Emory Howell
Program for the Division of Chemical Education: Washington, DC, August 19-24, 2000947
Conrad H. Bergo, D. Paul Rillema, and Morton Z. Hoffman
Exhibitor Showcase950
A National Chemistry Week Invitation955
Chemical Education Research: Developing Research Questions That Can Be Answered 955
High School Program958
Exploring Washington, DC961
Paul S. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen
News & Announcements966
Book and Media Reviews
The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914 (edited by David Knight and Helge Kragh) 970
reviewed by George B. Kauffman
Book and Media Reviews
Scientific Development and Misconceptions through the Ages (by Robert E. Krebs)970
reviewed by Paul R. Jones
The Information Page972
Book and Media Reviews
Chemical Thermodynamics (edited by Trevor M. Lechter)973
reviewed by Charles L. Watkins
Book and Media Reviews
Access to Chemistry (by Alan Jones, Mike Clemmet, Avril Higton, and Elaine Golding)973
reviewed by Charmaine Mamantov
Book and Media Reviews
Books Noted974
Advertising in This Issue974
Out of the Editor's Basket975

 Chemistry for Everyone
A Living Periodic Table979
James L. Marshall
Discovery and Early Uses of Iodine984
Louis Rosenfeld
The Other Double Helix--The Fascinating Chemistry of Starch988
Robert D. Hancock and Bryon J. Tarbet
Two Faces of Alkaloids993
Jirí Dostál

 In The Classroom
Curricular Change Digests
The MATCH Program: A Preparatory Chemistry and Intermediate Algebra Curriculum999
Donald J. Wink, Sharon Fetzer Gislason, Sheila D. McNicholas, Barbara J. Zusman, and Robert C. Mebane
A Chemistry Course with a Laboratory for Non-Science Majors1001
Emeric Schultz
Secondary School Chemistry
Developing an Intuitive Approach to Moles1007
Dawn M. Wakeley and Hans de Grys
Applications and Analogies
A Drop in the Ocean1010
Damon Diemente
Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Pitfalls of Incomplete Combustion Demonstrations1011
Ed Vitz
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Simulating Dynamic Equilibria: A Class Experiment1013
John A. Harrison and Paul D. Buckley
Tested Demonstrations
A Classroom Exercise in Sampling Technique1015
Michael R. Ross
Tested Demonstrations
An In-Class Experiment to Illustrate the Importance of Sampling Techniques and Statistical Analysis of Data to Quantitative Analysis Students1017
JudithAnn R. Hartman
Role-Playing in Analytical Chemistry: The Alumni Speak1019
Paul T. Jackson and John P. Walters
Introducing the Uncertainty Principle Using Diffraction of Light Waves1025
Pedro L. Muiño
A Simple Approach to Heat Engine Efficiency1027
Carl Salter
Secondary School Chemistry
Understanding Electrochemical Thermodynamics through Entropy Analysis1031
Thomas H. Bindel

 In the Laboratory
Student-Directed Learning in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory1035
Martha A. Hass
Determination of Ksp, , , and for the Dissolution of Calcium Hydroxide in Water: A General Chemistry Experiment 1039
William B. Euler, Louis J. Kirschenbaum, and Ben Ruekberg
An Inexpensive Gradient Maker for the Biochemistry Laboratory1041
William H. Flurkey
Kinetic Isotope Effect in the Chromic Acid Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols1042
Charles E. Harding, Christopher W. Mitchell, and Jozsef Devenyi
Trisethylenediaminecobalt(III) Chloride Sulfate as a Subject Material for Widely Different Chemistry Lab Courses1045
Yoshiki Moriguchi
Evaporation Kinetics in Short-Chain Alcohols by Optical Interference1047
Ian M. Rosbrugh, S. Y. Nishimura, and A. M. Nishimura
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
ISE Analysis of Hydrogen Sulfide in Cigarette Smoke1049
Guofeng Li, Brian J. Polk, Liz A. Meazell, and David W. Hatchett

 Research: Science and Education
Periodic Patterns1053
Geoffrey Rayner-Canham
Ionization Energies, Parallel Spins, and the Stability of Half-Filled Shells1056
Peter Cann
Understanding Trends in C-H, N-H, and O-H Bond Dissociation Enthalpies1062
K. U. Ingold and J. S. Wright
Significant Figures, the Periodic Table, and Mass Spectrometry: The Challenge of Large Biomolecules1065
Nancy Carter Dopke, Paul M. Treichel, and Martha M. Vestling
The Bond Valence Model as a Tool for Teaching Inorganic Chemistry: The Ionic Model Revisited1070
I. David Brown
Should Gaseous BF3 and SiF4 Be Described as Ionic Compounds?1076
Arne Haaland, Trygve Helgaker, Kenneth Ruud, and D. J. Shorokhov

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
A Simplified Mathematical Model for Calculating the Lattice Energies of Binary Group I and Group II Ionic Compounds: Using Solver to Estimate the Empirical Constants1081
Alan Carter
Life before and after Computers in General Chemistry Laboratory1085
Rebecca B. Jones
A Web Site Supporting the AP Descriptive Chemistry Question1087
Kent J. Crippen, David W. Brooks, and Amjad Abuloum
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 July 5, 2000
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