Table of Contents

Journal Cover
September 1986
Volume 63, Issue 9
Pages 737-826
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This month's cover features, in action, B.Z. Shakhashiri and R.I. Perkins, the two recipients of major national awards in chemical education in 1986. Articles based on their acceptance addresses begin on pages 777 and 781, respectively.

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Articles

What makes science hard?

Robert P. Rooney
p 737
Publication Date: September 1986 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p737
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Humphry Davy: The romantic chemist

Robert P. Rooney
p 739
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p739

Rene Marcelin: Experimenter and surface scientist

Karol J. Mysels
p 740
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p740

C. R. Bury: His contributions to physical chemistry

Mansel Davies
p 741
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p741

Stone Age, Iron Age, Polymer Age

p 743
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p743

Point groups based on methane and adamantane (Td) skeletons

Shinsaku Fujita
p 744
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p744

Analysis of the vibrational-rotational spectrum of diatomic molecules

Michael G. Prais
p 747
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p747

A comparison of molecular vibrational theory to Huckel molecular orbital theory

David. Keeports
p 753
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p753

Band breadth of electronic transitions and the particle-in-a-box model

Lars-Fride Olsson
p 756
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p756

An investigation of the quality of approximate wave functions

Lynne H. Reed and Arthur R. Murphy
p 757
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p757

Some aspects of the eigenfunction normalization in the problem of the particle moving in free space, revisited

J. J. Lopez-Gonzalez , M. Pinar , M. Fernandez-Gomez and J. F. Arenas
p 759
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p759

The particle in a box revisited

H. D. El-Issa
p 761
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p761

The inhibition of enzymes by drugs and pesticides

Thomas H. Cromartie
p 765
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p765

Limonene - A natural insecticide

Joseph H. Beatty
p 768
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p768

Curdling chemistry - Coagulated milk products

Craig J. Oberg
p 770
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p770

Metabolism Part III: Lipids

George M. Bodner
p 772
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p772

Enzyme technology: A practical topic in basic chemical education

Peter Grunwald
p 775
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p775

Exhortations for good teaching

Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
p 777
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p777

Some things have changed little in the last 138 years

Ronald I. Perkins
p 781
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p781

SI and non-SI units of concentration: A truce?

Ronald L. Rich
p 784
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p784

Teaching significant figures using a learning cycle

E. Park Guymon , Helen J. James and Spencer L. Saeger
p 786
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p786

The missing ingredient in teaching evaluation

Henry Freiser
p 788
Publication Date: September 1986 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p788
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Stimulating an interest in chemistry in middle school students

Charles W. J. Scaife
p 790
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p790

A nine-month summer program for talented and gifted high school students

Richard H. Hanson and Fred H. Watson
p 792
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p792

The use of plastic sheets to improve the effectiveness of overhead projectors

Frank J. Gadek
p 793
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p793

Chemical education in China: Lanzhou University

Qizhen Shi and Fred Basolo
p 794
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p794

An easy approach for reading manometers to determine gas pressure: The analogy of the child's seesaw

Ira Batra Garde
p 796
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p796

Applications of computer graphics in the study of polymer configurations

Marvin Bishop , Sharon Frinks and AnnMarie M. Meier
p 800
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p800

BASIC programs for calculating overlap integrals

R. Geanangel and J. Beneke
p 801
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p801

Stepper motor interfacing to the Apple game port

Edward W. Vitz
p 803
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p803

An Apple-computer-controlled autosyringe

Edward W. Vitz
p 804
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p804

A microcomputer-interfaced kinetic spectrophotometry experiment

J. V. Badding , R. C. Barile and L. P. Michiels
p 806
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p806

Converting spectrophotometer output linear in %T to absorbance: Modification of IMI's Vidichart-II

Michael J. Collins
p 807
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p807

Electrodeposition of nickel on copper

Joseph Manjkow and Dana Levine
p 809
Publication Date: September 1986 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p809.1

The electrolysis of water: An improved demonstration procedure

Stephen Heideman
p 809
Publication Date: September 1986 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p809.2

Introducing plastic in the laboratory: Synthesis of a plasticizer, dioctylphthalate and evaluation of its effects on the physical properties of polystyrenes

A. Caspar , J. Gillois , G. Guillerm , M. Savignac and L. Vo-Quang
p 811
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p811

A three-piece, all-glass system for radial chromatography

Karl-Heinz A. Rosler , Ralph N. Blomster and Mark J. Schocken
p 813
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p813

A convenient holder for suction filtration flasks

Bob Homann
p 814
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p814

Hydrogen bonding and retention on silica: A concept illustrated by TLC chromatography of nitrophenols

A. Feigenbaum
p 815
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p815

Synthesis of 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)-ethane: An advanced undergraduate lab

Alan R. Newman and Craig A. Hackworth
p 817
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p817

EPR spectroscopy of MnZ+:CaO: An advanced physical chemistry laboratory experiment

R. Moore , S. G. DiMagno and H. W. Yoon
p 818
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p818

When are two aqueous salt solutions insoluble in each other?: A phase-diagram experiment illustrating a peculiarity of micelle-forming systems

Thomas C. Franklin and Susan B. Benson
p 821
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p821

A simple and inexpensive apparatus for anodic oxidation

Manouchehr Azadi-Ardakani and Timothy W. Wallace
p 822
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p822

Study of conformational equilibrium by dipole moment measurements: A source of experiments in physical organic chemistry

Joao P. Conde and Joaquim Moura-Ramos
p 823
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p823

A safe vacuum manometer

Gian Franco Miozzo
p 826
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063p826

Evolution of instrumentation for UV-visible spectrophotometry Part I.

Ines R. Altemose
p A216
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063pA216

Student exposure to mercury vapors

Joyce Weber
p A224
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063pA224

Introduction to general chemistry (Smith, Stanely; Chabay, Ruth)

Helen H. Neufeld and Robin B. Kinnel
p A231
Publication Date: September 1986 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063pA231
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Introduction to crystallography (Curtin, David Y.)

John L. Ragle and Ming-yu Rachel Wang
p A233
Publication Date: September 1986 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063pA233
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Thomas Beddoes, MD 1760-1808: Chemist, physician, democrat (Stansfield, Dorthy A.)

George B. Kauffman
p A235
Publication Date: September 1986 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed063pA235
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