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January 2008
Vol. 85 No. 1

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Chemical Education Today

Editorial
If You Seek a Useful Journal, Look About You!		11
	John W. Moore

Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: Explosive Discovery on Genetically Engineered Tobacco Plant; New Explosives Prove Unusually Touchy; New Technology for Tracking Down Builders of Homemade Bombs		12
	Angela King

Especially for High School Teachers
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome		13
	Erica K. Jacobsen

Classroom Activity Connections
Soda Can Density and Unexpected Results		18
	Erica K. Jacobsen, Donald R. Paulson, and Michael J. Sanger

Association Report: ACS Education Division
What Goes into Good Web Design? A Report on the New ACS Web Site		20
	Adam Boyd and Natasha Bruce

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
The New Periodic Table Live!		22

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
The Chemical Education Digital Library		23

Award Address
Advice to My Intellectual Grandchildren		24
	J. Dudley Herron

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
All Back Issues Are Now Available!		25

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
Explore the Hidden JCE—Go Online!		27

Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Committee Reports, October 2007		34

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
n-Amyl Alcohol		42
	Jay A. Young

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
tert-Amyl Alcohol		43
	Jay A. Young

News & Announcements		44

Letters
What's Wrong with Cookbooks?		47
	Gail Horowitz

Letters
Determining the Pressure inside an Intact Carbonated Beverage Can		47
	Leslie Glasser

The Information Page		48

Einstein: His Life and Universe (Walter Isaacson)		49
	A. Truman Schwartz

Advertising in This Issue		50

Out of the Editor's Basket		51


Chemistry for Everyone

Using Popular Magazine Articles To Teach the Art of Writing for Nontechnical Audiences		55
	John D. Sivey and Cindy M. Lee

A Bright Spark: Open Teaching of Science Using Faraday's Lectures on Candles		59
	Mark Walker, Martin Gröger, Kirsten Schlüter, and Bernd Mosler

The Different Periodic Tables of Dmitrii Mendeleev		63
	Michael Laing


In the Classroom

JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Electrochemical Polishing of Silverware: A Demonstration of Voltaic and Galvanic Cells		68
	Michelle M. Ivey and Eugene T. Smith

JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Similarity and Difference in the Behavior of Gases: An Interactive Demonstration		72
	Guy Ashkenazi

An Experimental Approach to Teaching and Learning Elementary Statistical Mechanics		78
	Frank B. Ellis and David C. Ellis


In the Laboratory


Analysis of Peppermint Leaf and Spearmint Leaf Extracts by Thin-Layer Chromatography		133
	Libbie S. W. Pelter, Andrea Amico, Natalie Gordon, Chylah Martin, Dessalyn Sandifer, and Michael W. Pelter


Research: Science and Education


The Role of the Laboratory in Chemistry Instruction		145
	M. J. Elliott, K. K. Stewart, and J. J. Lagowski


On the Web


JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Leaf Extracts		160
	William F. Coleman

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