Table of Contents

Journal Cover
December 1989
Volume 66, Issue 12
Pages 975-1066
About the Cover:

This month's cover features several examples of the art of oriental lacquer. The chemistry of this process, as well as its artistic application, is discussed by Snyder in an article on page 977. A box containing specific information about the pieces also appears on that page.

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Articles

What can research in education do for teachers?

J. J. Lagowski
p 975
Publication Date: December 1989 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p975
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An overview of oriental lacquer: Art and chemistry of the original high-tech coating

Donald M. Snyder
p 977
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p977

Elementary my dear Watson

Terry L. Helser
p 980
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p980

Sherlock Holmes and the yellow prisms

Thomas G. Waddell and Thomas R. Rybolt
p 981
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p981

An entirely fabulous account of the origin of the Pauli exclusion principle

Ben Ruekberg
p 983
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p983

Carbohydrate nomenclature half a century ago: A personal view of an eyewitness

Charles D. Hurd
p 984
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p984

Supercritical phase transitions at very high pressure

Kevin M. Schlosky
p 989
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p989

Applying the critical conditions to equations of state

J. G. Eberhart
p 990
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p990

Antique windowpanes and the flow of supercooled liquids

Robert C. Plumb
p 994
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p994

Can you play a coelute while you avoid coelution?

Dan Vassilaros
p 996
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p996

Order, chaos, and all that!

L. Glasser
p 997
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p997

With Clausius from energy to entropy

Maximo Baron
p 1001
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1001

Parameters affecting whether water will flow out from an inverted open bottle

Tsunetaka Sasaki
p 1005
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1005

Identifying polar and nonpolar molecules

R. J. Tykodi
p 1007
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1007

A game show approach to teaching peptide sequencing

Paul V. Lemley
p 1011
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1011

A facile Huckel molecular orbital solution of Buckminsterfullerene using chemical graph theory

Jerry Ray Dias
p 1012
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1012

Molecular models for the do-it-yourselfer

James P. Birk and John Foster
p 1015
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1015

Beryllium

Alton Banks
p 1018
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1018

An easily constructed triangulated dodecahedron model

Shukichi Yamana
p 1019
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1019

Chemical metaphors

Kenneth W. Watkins
p 1020
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1020

An easily constructed bicapped trigonal prism model

Shukichi Yamana
p 1021
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1021

Computer simulation of chemical equilibrium

John F. Cullen
p 1023
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1023

The diazo copying process: An example and demonstration of applied organic chemistry for the undergraduate student

Bruce Osterby
p 1026
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1026

Chemistry instruction: Observations and hypotheses

Betty Wruck and Jesse Reinstein
p 1029
Publication Date: December 1989 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1029
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The scientists and the electron or a tale of duality (with apologies to John Godfrey Saxe)

Janice Kelland
p 1030
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1030

Hands Together Science

Eugene Gennaro and Frances Luwrenz
p 1031
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1031

A demonstration of the optical activity of a pair of enantiomers

Bruce Knauer
p 1033
Publication Date: December 1989 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1033

Illustrating the inductive effect on acid strength of carboxylic acids

Kenneth E. Kolb and Doris Kolb
p 1034
Publication Date: December 1989 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1034.1

Using palladium hydride to introduce crystal structures

David F. Rieck
p 1034
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1034.2

Polarized light and rates of chemical reactions

John J. Weir
p 1035
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1035

Multiport student spectrometer

Carl B. Bishop
p 1037
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1037

An easy model for teaching mass / charge in mass spectrometry

Nelson Angelo de Souza and Ruiess Van Fossen Bravo
p 1039
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1039

Reaction intermediates in organic chemistry: A colorful demonstration

Luzia P. Novaki , Paula P. Brotero and Omar A. El Seoud
p 1040
Publication Date: December 1989 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1040

Consumer chemistry demonstrations

Edward Carberry , Thomas Gonnella and Robert Eliason
p 1041
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1041

Chemistry from waste products: Fractional distillation of used engine oil

Peter M. Mashava , Ilori E. Alonge and Francis Mlenga
p 1042
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1042

Coordination complexes of cobalt: Inorganic synthesis in the general chemistry laboratory

Gregory M. Williams , John Olmstead and Andrew P. Breksa
p 1043
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1043

The resolution of a completely inorganic coordination compound: A modified classic experiment for the inorganic laboratory

Takaji Yasui , Tomoharu Ama and George B. Kauffman
p 1045
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1045

Photodestruction quantum yield of adenine in aqueous solution: A physical chemistry experiment

Mercedes Rivera
p 1049
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1049

Planck's constant from a CdS photoconductivity cell

James E. Sturm
p 1052
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1052

A precise determination of absolute zero

Ronald S. Strange and Frank T. Lang
p 1054
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1054

Friedel Crafts acylation and alkylation with acid chlorides

Ronald M. Jarret , Nora Keil , Susan Allen , Lisa Cannon , Julie Coughlan , Leonarda Cusumano and Brian Nolan
p 1056
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1056

Hemolysis test for saponins: A caution

Subramanian Southeeswaran and William Kenchington
p 1058
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1058

Improved Kugelrohr distillation accessories

K. W. Payne , T. Denton and E. J. Eisenbraun
p 1059
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1059

Comparison of continuous flow analysis techniques: A laboratory exercise

C. L. M. Stults , Paul R. Kraus , S. K. Ratanathanawongs , Chas. J. Patton and S. R. Crouch
p 1060
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1060

An integrated crystallization-melting point experiment for the organic chemistry laboratory

Charles G. Moseley
p 1063
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1063

Amending the IUPAC Green Book

R. J. Tykodi
p 1064
Publication Date: December 1989 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1064
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Early origins of "isothermal" chainbranching explosions: Luther's article on chemical waves

Peter Gray
p 1065
Publication Date: December 1989 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1065.1
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Exception to solving chem problems without the factor-label approach

Marcia L. Gillette
p 1065
Publication Date: December 1989 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1065.2
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Exception to solving chem problems without the factor-label approach (the author replies)

Frank Cardulla
p 1066
Publication Date: December 1989 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066p1066
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Synthesis-laboratory fumehoods: Easy, reliable performance evaluation and importance of sash design

John B. Adams
p A289
Publication Date: December 1989 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA289

Chemistry, Third Edition (Bailar, Jr., John C.; Moeller, Therald; Kleiberg, Jacob; Guss, Cyrus O.; Castellion, Mary E.; Metz, Clyde)

Carl D. Slater
p A298
Publication Date: December 1989 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA298.1
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Chemistry with Inorganic Qualitative Analysis, Third Edition (Bailar, Jr., John C.; Moeller, Therald; Kleiberg, Jacob; Guss, Cyrus O.; Castellion, Mary E.; Metz, Clyde)

Carl D. Slater
p A298
Publication Date: December 1989 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA298.2
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General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications, Fifth Edition (Petrucci, Ralph H.)

Fred F. Farris
p A299
Publication Date: December 1989 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA299.1
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Inorganic Chemistry: Principles and Applications (Butler, Ian S.; Harrod, John F.)

Alan J. Pribula
p A299
Publication Date: December 1989 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA299.2
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First Aid Manual for Chemical Accidents, Second Edition (Lefevre, Marc J.; Conibear, Shirley A.)

Malcom M. Renfrew
p A300
Publication Date: December 1989 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA300.1
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For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist (Kornberg, Arthur)

Salvatore F. Russo
p A300
Publication Date: December 1989 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed066pA300.2
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