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May 2007
Vol. 84 No. 5


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Energizing Students and Science743
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Planning Now for Next Year745
Laura E. Slocum
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances: Erasable Graffiti?; Consumer's Delight: A Practical Way To Make Round Salt; Spinning a New Yarn: Silicone Fibers with Living Organisms 746
Angela G. King
Commentary
"Mysteries" of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics753
Rubin Battino
Ask the Historian
The Origin of the s, p, d, f Orbital Labels757
William B. Jensen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Phenol759
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Toluene760
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements761
The Information Page766
Letters
Implementing "How Science Works"767
Michael Akeroyd
Book & Media Reviews
Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 7th Edition (Peter G. Urben, ed., assisted by Malcolm J. Pitt)768
Jay A. Young
Advertising in This Issue770
Out of the Editor's Basket771

 Chemistry for Everyone
Primo Levi and The Periodic Table: Teaching Chemistry Using a Literary Text775
Viktoria Klara Lakatos Osorio, Peter Wilhelm Tiedemann, and Paulo Alves Porto
Applications and Analogies
Aromatic Bagels: An Edible Resonance Analogy779
Shirley Lin

 In the Classroom
The Concept of Resonance781
Donald G. Truhlar
On the Role of d Orbital Hybridization in the Chemistry Curriculum783
John Morrison Galbraith
The Physical Meaning of the Mathematical Formalism Present in Limiting Chemical Equations; Or, How Dilute Is Dilute?788
C. Contreras-Ortega, N. Bustamante, J. L. Guevara, C. Portillo, and V. Kesternich
Cost-Effective Teacher
Plastic Membrane Sensor from a Disposed Combined Glass Electrode. A Project for Graduate and Fourth-Year Undergraduate Students of Analytical Chemistry793
Hayat M. Marafie, Adel F. Shoukry, and Laila A. Alshatti
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
An Iodine Fluorescence Quenching Clock Reaction797
Richard B. Weinberg
JCE Classroom Activity
How Does Your Laundry Glow?800A
Richard B. Weinberg
A Short History of Three Chemical Shifts801
Shin-ichi Nagaoka
X-ray Diffraction and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. A Tutorial and Historical Account of James Watson and Francis Crick's Use of X-ray Diffraction in Their Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA803
David T. Crouse
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of DNA809
William F. Coleman
Using Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy To Analyze Archaeological Materials. Introducing Scientific Concepts and Scientific Literacy to Students from All Disciplines810
Adam D. Hill, Ann H. Lehman, and Maria L. Parr

 In the Laboratory
Structural Order–Disorder Transformations Monitored by X-ray Diffraction and Photoluminescence814
R. C. Lima, E. C. Paris, E. R. Leite, J. W. M. Espinosa, A. G. Souza, and E. Longo
Using Variable Temperature Powder X-ray Diffraction To Determine the Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Solid MgO818
Nicholas C. Corsepius, Thomas C. DeVore, Barbara A. Reisner, and Deborah L. Warnaar
Cost-Effective Teacher
Enthalpy of Vaporization and Vapor Pressures: An Inexpensive Apparatus822
Rubin Battino, David A. Dolson, Michael R. Hall, and Trevor M. Letcher
A Colorimetric Analysis Experiment Not Requiring a Spectrophotometer: Quantitative Determination of Albumin in Powdered Egg White. A High School or General Science Experiment826
Amanda K. Charlton, Richard S. Sevcik, Dorie A. Tucker, and Linda D. Schultz
Detection and Quantification of Valerenic Acid in Commercially Available Valerian Products829
Ruth H. Douglas, Ciaran A. Muldowney, Rabab Mohamed, Fiona Keohane, Catherine Shanahan, John J. Walsh, and Pierce V. Kavanagh
Complexation of Copper(II) Ion with Tetraglycine as Followed by Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy. A Bioinorganic Chemistry Experiment832
Eugenio Garribba and Giovanni Micera
Synthesis, Purification, and Characterization of a μ-(1,3-propanedithiolato)-hexacarbonyldiiron. Laboratory Experiment or Mini-Project for Inorganic Chemistry or Integrated Laboratory836
Carmen F. Works
Quantitative Comparison of Three Standardization Methods Using a One-Way ANOVA for Multiple Mean Comparisons839
Russell D. Barrows
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Digitally Enhanced Thin-Layer Chromatography: An Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis842
Amber Victoria Irish Hess
Incorporating Guided-Inquiry Learning into the Organic Chemistry Laboratory848
Barbara A. Gaddis and Allen M. Schoffstall
Green Chemistry
Oxidation of Aromatic Aldehydes Using Oxone852
Rajani Gandhari, Padma P. Maddukuri, and Thottumkara K. Vinod
Making Molecular Borromean Rings. A Gram-Scale Synthetic Procedure for the Undergraduate Organic Lab855
Cari D. Pentecost, Nicholas Tangchaivang, Stuart J. Cantrill, Kelly S. Chichak, Andrea J. Peters, and J. Fraser Stoddart

 Research: Science and Education
The Weakest Link: Bonding between Helium Atoms860
Lawrence L. Lohr and S. M. Blinder
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Hydrophobic Solvation: Aqueous Methane Solutions864
Oliver Konrad and Timm Lankau
Chemical Education Research
What Are Students Thinking When They Pick Their Answer? A Content Analysis of Students' Explanations of Gas Properties870
Michael J. Sanger and Amy J. Phelps
Chemical Education Research
"Concept Learning versus Problem Solving": Does Particle Motion Have an Effect?875
Michael J. Sanger, Eddie Campbell, Jeremy Felker, and Charles Spencer
Chemical Education Research
A2: Element or Compound?880
Marilyne Stains and Vicente Talanquer

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Teaching with Technology
Achieving Greater Feedback and Flexibility Using Online Pre-Laboratory Exercises with Non-Major Chemistry Students 884
Gail D. Chittleborough, Mauro Mocerino, and David F. Treagust
Teaching Mathematics to Chemistry Students with Symbolic Computation889
J. F. Ogilvie and M. B. Monagan
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