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Cover
December 2000
Vol. 77 No. 12


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Before It's Too Late1535
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers1537
J. Emory Howell
Report
What Is Service Learning?1538
Deborah Wiegand and Melissa Strait
From Past Issues
Refrigeration--From Ice Man to Ozone Hole1540
Kathryn R. Williams
Report
Green Chemistry and Education1543
Dennis L. Hjeresen, David L. Schutt, and Janet M. Boese
Integrating the General Chemistry and General Biology Curriculum1548
José C. Barreto
Report
Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Institutions at the NSF Web Site1549
Donald J. Wink
NSF Highlights
Implementation of an Environmental Focus in an Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum by the Addition of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry1550
Cynthia Atterholt, David J. Butcher, J. Roger Bacon, William R. Kwochka, and Royce Woosley
News & Announcements1552
The Information Page1556
Letters
Design of Experiments (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1560-1561)1557
Benjamin J. Luberoff
Letters
Design of Experiments (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1560-1561)1557
David M. Birney
Letters
Standardizing Iodine (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1421-1422)1557
Stephen J. Hawkes
Letters
Solubility and Solubility Products (about J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 1179-1181 and J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 1182-1185)1558
R. Bruce Martin
Letters
Solubility and Solubility Products (about J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 1179-1181 and J. Chem. Educ. 1998, 75, 1182-1185)1558
Roy W. Clark and Judith M. Bonicamp
Letters
A Simple Derivation of the Boltzmann Distribution--A Comment (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1393-1394)1559
Frank Rioux
Letters
A Simple Derivation of the Boltzmann Distribution--A Comment (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1393-1394)1559
Sean McDowell
Letters
What Does It Mean to Be a Professor? (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1610-1611)1559
Frederick D. Tabbutt
Letters
What Does It Mean to Be a Professor? (about J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 1610-1611)1559
Robert L. Lichter
Letters
The Complexity of Teaching and Learning Chemical Equilibrium (about J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76, 554-558)1560
João C. M. Paiva and Victor M. S. Gil
Letters
The Complexity of Teaching and Learning Chemical Equilibrium (about J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76, 554-558 )1560
David Treagust
Book and Media Reviews
A Primer on Quality in the Analytical Laboratory
by John Kenkel

1561
David T. Harvey
Book and Media Reviews
Interpreting Organic Spectra
by D. Whittaker

1561
Charles G. Bass
Book and Media Reviews
Fundamental Chemical Kinetics, An Explanatory Introduction to the Concepts
by Margaret Robson Wright

1562
Michael P. McCann
Book and Media Reviews
Crystal Structures: Lattices and Solids in Stereoview
by Mark Ladd

1563
Guy Crundwell
Book and Media Reviews
Quantum Chemistry, 5th Edition
by Ira N. Levine

1564
Robert J. Hinde
Book and Media Reviews
Speaking of Science. Notable Quotes on Science, Engineering, and the Environment
by Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, and Deborah Fripp

1565
Ronald M. Magid
Advertising in This Issue1566
Out of the Editor's Basket1567

 Chemistry for Everyone
An Interview with Alex H. Johnstone1571
Liberato Cardellini
Climate Change and Its Effect on Coral Reefs1574
Ralph E. Weston Jr.
The Cost of Converting a Gasoline-Powered Vehicle to Propane. A Practical Review Problem for Senior High School or Introductory Chemistry1578
Michael P. Jansen

 In The Classroom
Tested Demonstrations
A Vivid Demonstration of Dependence of Overvoltage on the Physical State of a Metal Deposited on the Electrode1580
Ali Mardan and Rumana Ajaz
Tested Demonstrations
Improvement of Sugar--Chlorate Rocket Demonstration1581
Robert Eliason, Eric J. Lee, Darren Wakefield, and Adam Bergren
Tested Demonstrations
A Classroom Demonstration of the Formation of Aerosols from Biogenic Hydrocarbons1584
Jean M. Andino, Timothy J. Wallington, Michael D. Hurley, and Richard P. Wayne
Integration of Pre-college Chemistry Education and the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Program1586
R. Camacho-Zapata and J. López-Garriga
Senior Seminar Focusing on Societal Issues Related to Chemistry and Biochemistry1590
Harold B. White III, Murray V. Johnston, and Manuel Panar
Water: A Powerful Theme for an Interdisciplinary Course1594
Frederick Dean Tabbutt
Understanding the Greenhouse Effect: Is Global Warming Real? An Integrated Lab-Lecture Case Study for Non-science Majors1602
Frank M. Dunnivant, A. Moore, M. J. Alfano, R. Brzenk, P. T. Buckley, and M. E. Newman

 In the Laboratory
Applications of a U.S. EPA-Approved Method for Fluoride Determination in an Environmental Chemistry Laboratory: Fluoride Detection in Drinking Water1604
Gabrielle Rum, Wen-Yee Lee, and Jorge Gardea-Torresdey
Hand-Held Conductivity Meter and Probe for Small Volumes and Field Work1606
Barry R. Ganong
JCE Classroom Activity
Fizzy Drinks: Stoichiometry You Can Taste1608A
Brian Rohrig
Turbidimetric Analysis of Water and Wastewater Samples Using a Spectrofluorimeter1609
Jason J. Evans
An Undergraduate Experiment for the Measurement of Trace Metals in Core Sediments by ICP-AES and GFAAS1611
Scott A. Mabury, Dan Mathers, David A. Ellis, Patrick Lee, Adam M. Marsella, and Marianne Douglas
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Quantitative Analysis of Non-UV-Absorbing Cations in Soil Samples by High-Performance Capillary Electrophoresis. An Experiment for Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Laboratory1613
Jason A. Gruenhagen, Dana Delaware, and Yinfa Ma
Fluorescence Measurement of Pyrene Wall Adsorption and Pyrene Association with Humic Acids. An Experiment for Physical Chemistry or Instrumental Methods1617
Edward C. Shane, Miranda Price-Everett, and Tonya Hanson
ELISA and GC-MS as Teaching Tools in the Undergraduate Environmental Analytical Chemistry Laboratory1619
Ruth I. Wilson, Dan T. Mathers, Scott A. Mabury, and Greg M. Jorgensen
The Determination of Ergosterol in Environmental Samples. An Interdisciplinary Project Involving Techniques of Analytical and Organic Chemistry1621
Eugene J. Volker, Dan DiLella, Kim Terneus, Carson Baldwin, and Ilona Volker
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
The Role of Automated Instrumentation in Undergraduate Chemistry1624
Suzanne Bell
Green Chemistry in the Organic Teaching Laboratory: An Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Adipic Acid1627
Scott M. Reed and James E. Hutchison
Accident Anecdotes
The Label Didn't Say Not to Do It1629
Jay A. Young
Hot Chili Peppers: Extraction, Cleanup, and Measurement of Capsaicin1630
Jiping Huang, Scott A. Mabury, and John C. Sagebiel
Use of a Dynamic Headspace GC-MS Method for the Study of Volatile Organic Compounds in Polyethylene Packaging. An Undergraduate Experiment in Polymer Analysis1631
Steven C. Hodgson, R. John Casey, John D. Orbell, and Stephen W. Bigger
Infrared Spectrum and Group Theoretical Analysis of the Vibrational Modes of Carbonyl Sulfide1637
Michael J. Tubergen, Richard J. Lavrich, and James W. McCargar

 Research: Science and Education
Understanding, Deriving, and Computing Buffer Capacity1640
Edward T. Urbansky and Michael R. Schock
Carbinolamines and Geminal Diols in Aqueous Environmental Organic Chemistry1644
Edward T. Urbansky

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
Cl2O4 in the Stratosphere: A Collaborative Computational Physical Chemistry Project1648
David M. Whisnant, Lisa S. Lever, and Jerry J. Howe
Computer Bulletin Board
Local Atmospheric Chemistry and Ozone Model (LACOM)1650
Liisa Pirjola
Approaching Equilibrium in the N2O4-NO2 System: A Common Mistake in Textbooks1652
I. A. Leenson
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 20001656

 Index
Annual Index for Volume 77, 20001657
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November 3, 2000
September 1, 2005
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