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March 1997
Vol. 74 No. 3


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue249
Editorial
Am I Doing the Right Thing?253
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News254
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers255
J. Emory Howell
Letters
Thermodynamics and Controversy256
John W. Moore
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process256
Rubin Battino and Scott E. Wood
Announcements
Announcements257
Reports from Other Journals
News from On-Line260
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
Award Address
Chemistry Teaching--Science or Alchemy? 1996 Brasted Lecture262
A. H. Johnstone
Curricular Change Digests
Physical Chemistry Students Explore Nonlinear Curve Fitting On-Line: An Experiment in Developing An Intercollegiate Learning Community269
Deborah Sauder, Marcy Hamby Towns, Roland Stout, George Long, Theresa Julia Zielinski
Commentary
The Necessary Role of Scientists in the Education of Elementary Teachers271
G. A. Crosby
Commentary
In Defense of Thermodynamics - An Animate Analogy273
Sture Nordholm
ACS National Meeting
Program, Division of Chemical Education: San Francisco, 13-17 April 1997276
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process281
Robert D. Freeman
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process282
Leonard K. Nash
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process282
Wilmer Olivares and Pedro J. Colmenares
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process286
R. J. Tykodi
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process Belandria replies286
Jose Iraides Belandria
Letters
An Exceptional Theoretical Process 290
Robert D. Freeman

 In The Classroom
Tested Demonstrations
Equilibrium with Fried Eggs of PbI2 and KPbI3297
Adolf Cortel
Tested Demonstrations
Using Lasers to Demonstrate Refraction, Diffraction, and Dispersion298
Elvin Hughes, Jr. and L. H. Holmes, Jr.
The Use of MO Calculations to Teach Students Some Concepts of Aromatic Substitution Reactions299
Petrus Zeegers
Discharge of Vessels: Thermodynamic Analysis301
Jaime Wisniak

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
A Brief History of Thermodynamics Notation304
Rubin Battino, Laurence E. Strong, Scott E. Wood
View from My Classroom
Stoogiometry: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Stoichiometry306
Carla R. Krieger

 In the Laboratory
NSF Highlights
Multidisciplinary Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory310
William S. Glaunsinger, B. L. Ramakrishna, Antonio A. Garcia, Vincent Pizziconi
Filtrates and Residues
Extraction, Isolation, and Characterization of Fullerene C60: A Safe and Reliable Separation Experiment311
Jamey L. Anderson, Michele A. West, Christopher S. Foote
An Investigation into the Absorption of Infrared Light by Small Molecules: A General Chemistry Experiment313
William B. Heuer and Edward Koubek
CO2 Absorption of IR Radiated by the Earth316
Chad A. Meserole, Francis M. Mulcahy, John Lutz, Hashim A. Yousif
Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy of Small Molecules: A Physical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment318
Christopher A. Grant, J. L. Hardwick
From Polarimeter to Contact Angle Goniometer - Inexpensive Conversion of Laboratory Equipment322
Konrad G. Kabza and Kevin Cochran
Fries Rearrangement Accelerated by Microwave Radiation in the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory324
Inder R. Trehan, Jasvinder S. Brar, Ajay K. Arora, Goverdhan L. Kad
Coordination Chemistry of Pd(II) Complexes with P-Donor Ligands: An Introduction to Synthesis and Structural Characterization in Coordination Chemistry325
Esteban P. Urriolabeitia

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
Sensitivity to Experimental Parameters via Spreadsheets328
B. R. Sundheim
Discovery-Based Stereochemistry Tutorials Available on the World Wide Web329
Abby L. Parrill and Jacquelyn Gervay
Use of Simultaneous-Synchronized Macroscopic, Microscopic, and Symbolic Representations To Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Chemical Concepts330
Joel W. Russell, Robert B. Kozma, Tricia Jones, Joann Wykoff, Nancy Marx, Joan Davis
Teaching with Technology
A Spreadsheet Template for Quantum Mechanical Wavepacket Propagation335
John C. Hansen, Donald J. Kouri, David K. Hoffman
Quantum Mechanics: Classical Results, Modern Systems, and Visualized Examples by Richard W. Robinett343
reviewed by C. Michael McCallum
The Organic Chemistry Survival Manual by S. T. Mabrouk343
reviewed by Samuel S. Stradling
Classic Chemistry Demonstrations: One Hundred Tried and Tested Experiments, Ted Lister, compiler344
reviewed by George B. Kauffman
Die Chemischen Elemente: Ein Streifzug durch das Periodensystem by Lucien F. Trueb344
reviewed by George B. Kauffman
Chemical Intelligencer. Istva'n Hargittai, Editor345
reviewed by E. J. Walsh
JCE Software
Three Programs for DOS: Abstract of Volume 10B, Number 1 1. DNA Sequencing346
John F. Beck and David L. Bunbury
JCE Software
Three Programs for DOS: Abstract of Volume 10B, Number 1 2. Periodic Table Games346
John S. Martin
JCE Software
Three Programs for DOS: Abstract of Volume 10B, Number 1 3. FactGAME347
Richard W. Ramette

 Research: Science and Education
The Manifestation of Evolutionary Pressure in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Principles and Applications in Bioinorganic Chemistry - IX348
Ei-Ichiro Ochiai
Meta Tasks for Organizing Prevenient Knowledge In Organic Chemistry354
K. R. Fountain
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