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April 2007
Vol. 84 No. 4


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
New Technologies, New Opportunities: For What?567
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
A Sense of Community569
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: New Way to Detect Destructive Enzyme Activity; Ancient Hair Dye Based on Modern Nanotechnology; Squeezing More Shelf Life Out of Milk570
Angela G. King
Cover Feature
Chemistry Sudoku Puzzle577
Mary Saecker
Association Report: ACS Education Division
A History of ChemMatters Magazine578
Michael J. Tinnesand
Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Spring 2007 582
Steve Long
Association Report: ACS Education Division
ACS Sponsored High School Chemistry Clubs584
Terri Taylor
Report
ACS Regional Awards for High School Teachers587
Peggy D. Smith
Reports from Other Journals: The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher: The Four States of Matter—Solid, Squishy, Liquid, and Gas588
Roy W. Clark
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chlorobenzene590
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Dextrose591
Jay A. Young
The Information Page592
News & Announcements593
Letters
Let's All Visit Mole City!596
Mark W. Armstrong
Letters
Let's All Visit Mole City!596
Addison Ault
Letters
A Simple and Inexpensive Salt Bridge for Demonstrations Involving a Galvanic Cell597
Charles A. Liberko
Book & Media Reviews
The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance (Eric R. Scerri)598
A. Truman Schwartz
Advertising in This Issue600
Out of the Editor's Basket601

 Chemistry for Everyone
"Of Four Scottish Chemists". A Burns Supper-Inspired Poem605
Dean J. Campbell
Empirical Evidence or Intuition? An Activity Involving the Scientific Method606
Ken Overway
JCE Classroom Activity
Colorful Lather Printing608A
Susan A. S. Hershberger, Matt Nance, Arlyne M. Sarquis, and Lynn M. Hogue
A Disciplined Chemical Puzzle609
Miguel Peris
Chemistry of Art and Color Sudoku Puzzles610
Michael J. Welsh
Sudoku Puzzles as Chemistry Learning Tools612
Thomas D. Crute and Stephanie A. Myers
Sudoku Puzzles for First-Year Organic Chemistry Students614
Alice L. Perez and G. Lamoureux
View from My Classroom
A Spoonful of C12H22O11 Makes the Chemistry Go Down: Candy Motivations in the High School Chemistry Classroom615
Fanny K. Ennever

 In The Classroom
Teaching with Problems and Case Studies
The Analysis of a Murder, a Case Study617
Frank J. Dinan, Steven H. Szczepankiewicz, Melinda Carnahan, and Michael T. Colvin
Puzzling through General Chemistry: A Light-Hearted Approach to Engaging Students with Chemistry Content619
Susan L. Boyd
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models Candy Components 621
William F. Coleman
Terra Firma: "Physics First" for Teaching Chemistry to Pre-Service Elementary School Teachers622
Michelle B. More
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Turning Plastic Into Gold: An Analogy To Demonstrate the Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment626
Robert B. Gregory
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
Predicting the Stability of Hypervalent Molecules629
Tracy A. Mitchell, Debbie Finocchio, and Jeremy Kua
A Lemon Cell Battery for High-Power Applications635
Kenneth R. Muske, Christopher W. Nigh, and Randy D. Weinstein
An Experiential Research-Focused Approach: Implementation in a Nonlaboratory-Based, Graduate-Level Analytical Chemistry Course639
Chee-Seng Toh

 Waters Symposium: Electrochemistry
The 16th James L. Waters Annual Symposium: Electrochemistry643
Adrian C. Michael
The Rise of Voltammetry: From Polarography to the Scanning Electrochemical Microscope644
Allen J. Bard
From the Science Fair to the NASDAQ651
Peter T. Kissinger
Serendipity: Genesis of the Electrochemical Instrumentation at Princeton Applied Research Corporation656
J. B. Flato

 In the Laboratory
Addition of a Project-Based Component to a Conventional Expository Physical Chemistry Laboratory668
Georgios Tsaparlis and Marianna Gorezi
Cost-Effective Teacher
Small-Scale and Low-Cost Electrodes for "Standard" Reduction Potential Measurements671
Per-Odd Eggen, Lise Kvittingen, and Truls Grønneberg
Exploring Faraday's Law of Electrolysis Using Zinc–Air Batteries with Current Regulative Diodes674
Masahiro Kamata and Miei Paku
Homemade Bienzymatic-Amperometric Biosensor for Beverages Analysis677
M. C. Blanco-López, M. J. Lobo-Castañón, and A. J. Miranda-Ordieres
Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance Monitoring of the Cyclic Voltammetric Deposition of Polyaniline. A Laboratory Experiment for Undergraduates681
Qingji Xie, Zhili Li, Chunyan Deng, Meiling Liu, Youyu Zhang, Ming Ma, Shaoxi Xia, Xiaoming Xiao, Dulin Yin, and Shouzhuo Yao
Flat-Band Potential of a Semiconductor: Using the Mott–Schottky Equation685
K. Gelderman, L. Lee, and S. W. Donne
Chemical Composition of Latent Fingerprints by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry. An Experiment for an Instrumental Analysis Course689
Brittany Hartzell-Baguley, Rachael E. Hipp, Neal R. Morgan, and Stephen L. Morgan
Green Chemistry
A Green Alternative to Aluminum Chloride Alkylation of Xylene692
Grigoriy A. Sereda and Vikul B. Rajpara
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a Hexane-Soluble Silver Salt694
Robert A. Stockland, Jr., Brian D. Wilson, Caton C. Goodman, Barret J. Giese, and Frederick L. Shrimp
Competitive Nitration of Benzene–Fluorobenzene and Benzene–Toluene Mixtures: Orientation and Reactivity Studies Using HPLC697
Ronald L. Blankespoor, Stephanie Hogendoorn, and Andrea Pearson
The GC–MS Observation of Intermediates in a Stepwise Grignard Addition Reaction699
Devin Latimer
Synthesis of Bis(1,2-dimethylimidazole)copper(I) Hexafluorophosphate: An Experiment Using a Glove Box702
J. H. Niewahner and Keith A. Walters
Self-Motion Depending on the Physicochemical Properties of Esters as the Driving Force704
Satoshi Nakata, Kyoko Matsuo, and Junko Kirisaka
Preparation of CdS Nanoparticles by First-Year Undergraduates709
Kurt Winkelmann, Thomas Noviello, and Steven Brooks

 Research: Science and Education
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
A Variational Monte Carlo Approach to Atomic Structure711
Stephen L. Davis
The Chemistry Merit Program: Reaching, Teaching, and Retaining Students in the Chemical Sciences721
Gretchen M. Adams and James M. Lisy

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Teaching with Technology
Using Technology To Enhance the Effectiveness of General Chemistry Laboratory Courses727
Kathleen M. Carvalho-Knighton and Linda Keen-Rocha
Textbook Error: Short Circuiting an Electrochemical Cell731
Judith M. Bonicamp and Roy W. Clark
JCE Learning Community Online
Contrail. A Module from the Physical Chemistry On-Line Project 735
Franklin Chen
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 2006. Abstract of JCE CD 2006736
Jon L. Holmes
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