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• A Consistent Set of Oxidation Number Rules for Intelligent Computer TutoringJournal of Chemical Education

  • A Consistent Set of Oxidation Number Rules for Intelligent Computer Tutoring

    Dale A. Holder and Benny G. Johnson , Paul J. Karol
    Journal of Chemical Education 2002 79 (4), p 465

    Abstract:

    We have developed a method for assigning oxidation numbers that eliminates the inconsistencies and ambiguities found in most conventional textbook rules, yet remains simple enough for beginning students to use. It involves imposition of a two-level ...

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• Gender Equality in Science—Who Cares?Journal of Chemical Education

  • Gender Equality in Science—Who Cares?

    Lewyn Li
    Journal of Chemical Education 2002 79 (4), p 418

    Abstract:

    In this article, I address three questions: first, and most important, why scientists at all levels should care about gender equity in research; second, why there are so few women in science, from graduate school all the way to top-level research in ...

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• A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1956: Hinshelwood and SemenovJournal of Chemical Education

  • A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1956: Hinshelwood and Semenov

    Josh Van Houten
    Journal of Chemical Education 2002 79 (4), p 414

    Abstract:

    This is the fifth in a series of thirteen monthly essays reviewing the Nobel Prizes in chemical dynamics during the 20th century. Cyril Hinshelwood and Nikolay Semenov received the Nobel Prize in 1956 "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical ...

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