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August 1997
Vol. 74 No. 8


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue873
Editorial
The Cost of Journals877
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News878
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers879
J. Emory Howell
Letters
What a Tangled Web (re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 1007)880
A. C. Hall
Letters
What a Tangled Web (response re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 1007)
880
Michael Laing
Letters
Dissociation Constant for a Monoprotic Acid (re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 74, 792)880
Richard W. Ramette
Announcements
Announcements881
ACS National Meeting
Program for the Division of Chemical Education882
ACS National Meeting
Discovering Las Vegas890
Paul S. Cohen, Brenda H. Cohen
Association Reports
Association Reports: Council on Undergraduate Research: An Investment in Tomorrow: Undergraduate Research Students Meet Members of Congress892
Judith A. Halstead
Association Reports
Association Report: 2YC3 Collaboration: Why Participate in an Unnatural Act?894
John Clevenger
Association Reports
ACS Division of Chemical Education896
Reports from Other Journals
Reports from Other Journals: The Physics Teacher897
Volker B. E. Thomsen
Letters
Dissociation Constant for a Monoprotic Acid (response re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 74, 792)
The authors reply:
899
R. Garcia-Domenech, J. V. de Julian-Ortiz, G. M. Anton-Fos, Jorge Galvez-Alvarez
Letters
The Dimensions of Logarithmic Quantities (re J. Chem. Educ. 1991, 68, 467)900
Robert D. Freeman
Letters
To Weigh (re J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 451)900
Marion W. Smith, Charles E. Russell
Letters
Chemical Magic: An Update (re J. Chem. Educ. 1994, 71, 538)900
George B. Kauffman
Letters
Correction for Convergent Synthesis of Betaine-30, a Solvatochromic Dye (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 260)900
Bruce R. Osterby, Ronald D. McKelvey
ACD/ChemSketch 1.0 (freeware); ACD/ChemSketch 2.0 and its Tautomers, Dictionary, and 3D Plug-ins; ACD/HNMR 2.0; ACD/CNMR 2.0905
reviewed by Allen D. Hunter
Foundations of College Chemistry, 9th ed. by Morris Hein and Susan Arena908
reviewed by Colin D. Hubbard
Physical Chemistry Using Mathcad by Joseph H. Noggle908
reviewed by Ronald D. Poshusta
Thermodynamics, 2nd ed. by N. A. Gocken and R. G. Reddy909
reviewed by John R. Gunn
Booknotes: Chemical Research Faculties: An International Directory910
reviewed by George B. Kauffman

 Research: Science and Education
A Coordination Geometry Table of the d-Block Elements and Their Ions915
D. Venkataraman, Yuhua Du, Scott R. Wilson, Keith A. Hirsch, Peng Zhang, Jeffrey S. Moore
Determination of DeltaH for Reactions of the Born-Haber Cycle919
Richard S. Treptow
Atomic and Molecular Structure in Chemical Education: A Critical Analysis from Various Perspectives of Science Education922
Georgios Tsaparlis
Global Metabolism of Elements: Principles and Applications in Bioinorganic Chemistry - XI926
Ei-Ichiro Ochiai
Applications of the Variation Method930
Stephen K. Knudson
Variational Treatment of Attractive Central Power-Law Potentials935
B. Cameron Reed
Buffer Index and Buffer Capacity for a Simple Buffer Solution937
Veronica Chiriac, Gabriel Balea

 In The Classroom
Why and How To Teach Acid-Base Reactions without Equilibrium939
Terry S. Carlton
Tested Demonstrations
The Sodium Rainbow942
Miroslav Proksa
Tested Demonstrations
Observation of Magnetic Repulsion Acting on Nitrogen Bubble on Water Surface - A Simple Experiment of Studying Diamagnetic Property of Nitrogen943
Yukinori Matsuyama, Takashi Yasuoka, Syunmei Mitsuzawa, Tunetaka Sasaki
Applications and Analogies
Chemical Behavior943
Paul G. Jasien
Some Prerequisites for Achieving Better Results in Teaching Chemical Technology at the University Level944
Rumen Ivanov Dimitrov, Boyanka Tsankova Mateeva
NSF Highlights
Experimenting with Interdisciplinary Science946
Linda L. Ramsey, David L. Radford, William C. Deese

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Why Don't Things Go Wrong More Often? Activation Energies: Maxwell's Angels, Obstacles to Murphy's Law947
Frank L. Lambert
On Chemical Modeling an Alchemical Process: The Use of Combined Chemical Methods in a Historical Study949
Mikhail Yu. Rodygin, Irene V. Rodygin
"Biochemical Predestination" as Heuristic Principle for Understanding the Origin of Life950
Stephan Berry

 In the Laboratory
Introducing Scientific Reasoning with the Penny Lab952
Robert F. Mauldin
Filtrates and Residues
Guided Discovery: Law of Specific Heats955
Thomas H. Bindel, John C. Fochi
Low-Cost Constant Temperature Heating Block958
Charles G. Shevlin, Ward Coppersmith, Christopher Fish, Stanley Vlock, William Vellema
An Inexpensive Demountalbe IR Cell Fitted with Glass Windows961
Keiichi Ohno, Hiroatsu Matsuura, Haruhiko Tanaka
A Simple Laboratory Demonstration of Electrochromism962
Bertil Forslund
A Simple Undergraduate Concentration Step Experiment964
John Cassidy, Fiona Fitzpatrick, Sean Culhane
Convection in a Continuously Stratified Fluid965
Richard M. Heavers
Determination of pKa from Luminescence Quenching Data: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment968
Hector E. Gsponer, Gustavo A. Arguello , Gerardo A. Arguello
An Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment on the Analysis of First-Order Kinetic Data972
M.R.K. Hemalatha, I. Noorbatcha
A Novel Experiment in Chemical Kinetics: The A <=> B -> C Reaction System975
B. R. Ramachandran, Arthur M. Halpern
Kinetics of Internal Rotation of N,N-Dimethylacetamide: A Spin-Saturation Transfer Experiment978
Russell L. Jarek , Robert J. Flesher, Seung Koo Shin
Study of Molecular Cluster in Undergraduate Physical Chemistry982
D. Kahn, R. Viswanathan
Alternative Compounds for the Particle in a Box Experiment985
Bruce D. Anderson
The Gravimetric Analysis of Nickel Using a Microwave Oven986
Nadia Carmosini, Sanaz Ghoreshy, Marina C. Koether
Extraction and Assay of Ornithine Decarboxylase: A Laboratory Experiment that Introduces Principles of Radiochemical Enzymatic Assay988
William H. Voige
An Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment: The Multistep Synthesis of a Modified Nucleoside990
Peter deLannoy, Joseph Howell
A Thermostable Microbial Enzyme for Fast Preparative Organic Chemistry: The Preparation of (R)-(+)-1-Phenylethanol from (+)-1-Phenylethyl Pentanoate and n-Butanol992
Jacques Drouin, Jeanne Costante, Eryk Guibe-Jampel
Methylation of Isobutyrophenone Using Potassium Triphenylmethide: An Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment996
Fred J. Matthews
A Laboratory Exercise in Statistical Analysis of Data998
Mark F. Vitha, Peter W. Carr

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Least Squares Fitting of Non-Linear Data in the Undergraduate Laboratory1001
Theresa Julia Zielinski, Robert D. Allendoerfer
Simplex Method of Nonlinear Least-Squares - A Logical Complementary Method to Linear Least-Square Analysis of Data1008
Shannon G. Lieb
Chemical Literature: A Course Composed of Traditional and Online Searching Techniques1011
Fred J. Matthews
JCE Software
Alkanes in Motion (Program for Mac OS-Compatible Computers: J. Chem. Educ. Software Vol. 9C, No. 1)1015
Jae Hyun Kim
JCE Software
Enriching Quantum Chemistry with Mathcad (Program for Mac OS-Compatible Computers: J. Chem. Educ. Software Vol. 9C, No. 1)1016
Frank Rioux
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