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JCE Celebrates Earth Day

In 2004 JCE joined with the American Chemical Society in celebrating Earth Day, and does so in its February issue. Each year's theme is reflected in the articles and labs that are collected for the issue. Themes are and will be:

2006: Chemistry--Dig It!

2005: Air: Here, There, Everywhere

2004: Water Quality
2006

Research Advances: Eating Clay?; Look to Soil for New Leads in Arthritis Treatment; The Fate of Tetracyclines by Angela G. King, p186 (Feb).

Nature: Gifts from Mother Earh - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon, p196 (Feb).

Chemists Celebrate Earth Day 2006: Dig It! JCE Resources for Chemistry and Soils by Erica K. Jacobsen, p199 (Feb).

News from Online: Digging Up Earth Day Resources by Bernadette A. Caldwell, p201 (Feb).

An Interactive Environmental Science Course for Education Science Majors by S. K. Lunsford and William Slattery, p233 (Feb).

Soil Testing: Dig In! by Linda N. Fanis and Erica K. Jacobsen, p240A (Feb).

The Extraction and Isolation of Saltpeter from Nitered Soil. A Curriculum Alignment Project for a First-Year High-School Chemistry Course by Brett Criswell, p241 (Feb).

Analysis of Iron in Lawn Fertilizer: A Sampling Study by Michael A. Jeannot, p243 (Feb).

Reducing the Use of Agrochemicals: A Simple Experiment by M. M. Vidal, Olga M. S. Filipe, and M.C. Cruz Costa, p245 (Feb).
2005

Nature: Environmental Problems and New Hope for the Treatment of Malaria by Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon; p186 (Feb).

Nitrogen: It Always Needs a Fix by Kathryn R. Williams; p194 (Feb).

A Cool Drink: An Introduction to Concentrations by Mindy Bedrossian; p240A (Feb).

A Methane Balloon Inflation Chamber by Curtis J. Czerwinski and Tanya J. Cordes; p248 (Feb).

Fractional Distillation of Air and Other Demonstrations with Condensed Gases by Maria Oliver-Hoyo and William L. Switzer, III; p251 (Feb).

Rapid Determination of Mercury in Seafood in an Introductory Environmental Science Class by Jeanette K. Rice, J. David Jenkins, Citabria Manley, Eric Sorel, and C. Jimmy Smith; p265 (Feb).

Mercury Thermometer Replacements in Chemistry Laboratories by Barbara L. Foster; p269 (Feb).

FTIR Determination of Pollutants in Automobile Exhaust: An Environmental Chemistry Experiment Comparing Cold-Start and Warm-Engine Conditions by Laura J. Medhurst; p278 (Feb).

A Simple Method for Measuring Ground-Level Ozone in the Atmosphere by John V. Seeley, Arthur W. Bull, Richard J. Fehir, Jr., Susan Cornwall, Gabriel A. Knudsen, and Stacy K. Seeley; p282 (Feb).

The Determination of the Percent of Oxygen in Air Using a Gas Pressure Sensor by James Gordon and Katherine Chancey; p286 (Feb).

Applying Chemical Potential and Partial Pressure Concepts To Understand the Spontaneous Mixing of Helium and Air in a Helium-Inflated Balloon by Jee-Yon Lee, Hee-Soo Yoo, Jong Sook Park, Kwang-Jin Hwang, and Jin Seog Kim; p288 (Feb).
2004

An Earth Day That Counts by Erica K. Jacobsen; p169 (Feb).

Nature: "Water, Water, Everywhere, nor Any Drop to Drink" by Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon; p170 (Feb).

Water Quality Monitoring by Satellite; p171 (Feb).

News from Online: Green Chemistry by Erich S. Uffelman; p172 (Feb).

Earth Day Haiku; p 191 (Feb).

Arsenic in Drinking Water-A Global Environmental Problem by Joanna Shaofen Wang and Chien M. Wai; p207 (Feb).

Lead-Testing Service to Elementary and Secondary Schools Using Anodic Stripping Voltammetry by Amanda Goebel, Tracy Vos, Anne Louwagie, Laura Lundbohm and Jay H. Brown; p214 (Feb).

Water Filtration by Erica K. Jacobsen; p224A (Feb).

Magnetic Particle Technology. A Simple Preparation of Magnetic Composites for the Absorption of Water Contaminants by Luiz C. A. Oliveira, Rachel V. R. A. Rios, José D. Fabris, Rochel M. Lago, and Karim Sapag; p248 (Feb).

Novel Strategies for the Removal of Toxic Metals from Soils and Waters by D. Max Roundhill; p275 (Feb).
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