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December 1998
Vol. 75 No. 12


 Chemical Education Today
From Past Issues: The More Things Change...1506
In This Issue: Celebrating 75 Years!1507
Editorial
Looking Outward from the Central Science1511
John W. Moore
News from Journal House1512
Especially for High School Teachers1513
J. Emory Howell
Letters1514
Announcements1517
The State of Chemical Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Headed?1518
Journal History: A Synopsis of Our Past1542
Book and Media Reviews
Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition (by William H. Brown and Christopher S. Foote) 1555
Chriss McDonald
Book and Media Reviews
Pulsed Electrochemical Detection in High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (by William R. LaCourse)1555
John K. Sanders
Book and Media Reviews
Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry (by Jack Simons and Jeff Nichols)1556
C. Michael McCallum
Book and Media Reviews
Physical Adsorption: Forces and Phenomena (by L. W. Bruch, Milton W. Cole, and Eugene Zaremba)1557
Todd Raeker
Book and Media Reviews
Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms (by Bernard Miller)1558
Daniel J. Berger
Book and Media Reviews
The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements (by R. J. P. Williams and J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva)1559
George B. Kauffman

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Applications and Analogies
Demonstrations of the Enormity of Avogadro's Number1565
Damon Diemente
The Egg in the Bottle Revisited: Air Pressure and Amontons' Law (Charles' Law)1567
Louis H. Adcock
JCE Classroom Activity
CD Light: An Introduction to Spectroscopy1568A
CD-ROM Spectroscope: A Simple and Inexpensive Tool for Classroom Demonstrations on Chemical Spectroscopy1569
Fumitaka Wakabayashi, Kiyohito Hamada, and Kozo Sone
Resources for Student Assessment
Appalachian Trail Problems1571
Brian N. Akers

 In The Classroom
Stereowordimers-Minding Your P's and Q's1573
Edward G. Neeland
Chemical Kinetics without Calculus1574
Igor Novak
Organic Chemistry Lab as a Research Experience1575
Thomas R. Ruttledge
Introduction of the Scientific Method and Atomic Theory to Liberal Arts Chemistry Students1578
James R. Hohman
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
The Blue Bottle Experiment-Simple Demonstration of Self-Organization1580
L'ubica Adamcíková and Peter Sevcík
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Generating Water-Soluble Noxious Gases: An Overhead Projector Demonstration1581
Sally Solomon, Maria Oliver-Hoyo, and Chinhyu Hur
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: An Exercise in Dealing with Pollution1583
Grant R. Krow and Jessica B. Krow

 In the Laboratory
Identifying Bottled Water: A Problem-Solving Exercise in Chemical Identification1585
Richard L. Myers
Determination of Nitrate and Nitrite in Water by Capillary Electrophoresis: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment1588
David S. Hage, Anuja Chattopadhyay, Carrie A. C. Wolfe, Julie Grundman, and Paul Kelter
Synthesis and Separation of a Diastereomeric Sulfonium Ion by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis1590
Francisco A. Valenzuela, Thomas K. Green, and Darwin B. Dahl
Chemical Analysis of an Endangered Conifer: Environmental Laboratory Experiments1592
Royce S. Woosley and David J. Butcher
A New GC-MS Experiment for the Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Laboratory in Environmental Chemistry: Methyl-t-butyl Ether and Benzene in Gasoline1595
Dinh T. Quach, Nancy A. Ciszkowski, and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
Chromatography, Absorption, and Fluorescence: A New Instrumental Analysis Experiment on the Measurement of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Cigarette Smoke1599
Lisa M. Wingen, Jason C. Low, and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
Inhibition of Sulfite Oxidation by Phenols: Screening Antioxidant Behavior with a Clark Oxygen Sensor1603
László Sipos
Sulfides in the Anaerobic Environment: The Determination of Hydrogen Sulfide and Acid-Soluble Metallic Sulfides in Sea-Floor Sediment1605
Joan Kai Christensen, Boy Høyer, Lars Kryger, Niels Pind, and Lee Sing Kong
Lab Experiment
The Distribution Coefficient of Atrazine with Illinois Soils: A Laboratory Exercise in Environmental Chemistry1609
Eric Dolan, Yan Zhang, and Douglas G. Klarup
A Precise Method for Determining the CO2 Content of Carbonate Materials1610
Donald L. Pile, Alana S. Benjamin, Klaus S. Lackner, Christopher H. Wendt, and Darryl P. Butt
Quantitative HPLC Analysis of a Psychotherapeutic Medication: Simultaneous Determination of Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Perphenazine1615
Glenda K. Ferguson
Rapid, Sensitive, Enzyme-Immunodotting Assay for Detecting Cow Milk Adulteration in Sheep Milk: A Modern Laboratory Project1618
Luis A. Inda, Pedro Razquín, Fermín Lampreave, María A. Alava, and Miguel Calvo
Concepts in Biochemistry
A Thermodynamic Study of Azide Binding to Myoglobin1622
Anne T. Marcoline and Timothy E. Elgren
Lab Experiment
Reduction of 2,6-Dimethylcyclohexanone with Sodium Borohydride Revisited: A Correction on the Structural Assignments of the Products, and the Discovery of a Solvent Effect1623
Bruce A. Hathaway
The Spontaneous Hydrolysis of Methyl Chloroformate: A Physical Chemistry Experiment for Teaching Techniques in Chemical Kinetics1625
Omar A. El Seoud and Keiko Takashima
The Effects of Salts and Nonelectrolytes on the Solubility of Potassium Bitartrate: An Introductory Chemistry Discovery Experiment1628
Charles J. Marzzacco
Microscale Thermite Reactions1630
Francisco J. Arnáiz, Rafael Aguado, and Susana Arnáiz
The Pechmann Reaction1631
Michael S. Holden and R. David Crouch
Conformation Interchange in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy1632
Keith C. Brown, Randy L. Tyson, and John A. Weil
Rotational Barriers in Push-Pull Ethylenes: An Advanced Physical-Organic Project Including 2D EXSY and Computational Chemistry1635
Tammy J. Dwyer, Julia E. Norman, and Paul G. Jasien
Recycling Solvent Mixtures of Ethyl Acetate and Hexanes1640
Timothy J. Wilkinson

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide1641
Chien M. Wai, Fred Hunt, Min Ji, and Xiaoyuan Chen
Temperature Scale Conversion as a Linear Equation: True Unit Conversion vs Zero-Offset Correction1646
Reuben Rudman
An Excursion into Phase Tetrahedra-Where Physical Chemistry and Geometry Meet1648
S. Ezrahi, A. Aserin, N. Garti, and G. Berkovic

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Chemical Education Research
An Assessment of a Physical Chemistry Online Activity1653
Marcy Hamby Towns, Kelley Kreke, Deborah Sauder, Roland Stout, George Long, and Theresa Julia Zielinski
Developing and Using Conceptual Computer Animations for Chemistry Instruction1658
K. A. Burke, Thomas J. Greenbowe, and Mark A. Windschitl
Computer Bulletin Board
Conceptualizing Kinetics with Curve Fitting1661
Ed Vitz
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 19981664
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