Table of Contents

April 2004
Volume 81, Issue 4
Pages 455-608
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Creamer Streamers. Double-diffusive convection can be demonstrated using a cup, a pipet, coffee creamer (whitener), and (optionally) a microscope. At first, cells (0.1-1 mm each) are formed; then, hundreds of needlelike structures become visible to the naked eye. This observation is related to a large number of phenomena, such as deposition of chemical sewage at the bottom of the sea, salt distribution in oceans, and pattern formation in alloys, stars, and magma. See the article "Double-Diffusive Convection: A Simple Demonstration" by Mario Markus.

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Chemical Education Today

Exciting Chemistry and Chemical Education

John W. Moore
p 455
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p455
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Use the Journal To Share

Diana S. Mason
p 457
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p457
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Chemistry Everywhere. The 18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Iowa State University, July 18-22, 2004

K. A. Burke , Thomas J. Greenbowe , William S. Harwood , Mark Freilich
p 458
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p458

The Science Teacher: Spring 2004

Steve Long
p 462
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p462

The Origin of Vinyl

William B. Jensen
p 464
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p464

The Physics Teacher: Chemistry and Physics Teachers Have a Lot in Common

Roy W. Clark
p 466
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p466

Enhancing Research in the Chemical Sciences at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions. Recommendations of a Recent Undergraduate Research Summit

Thomas J. Wenzel , Kerry K. Karukstis
p 468
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p468

Inverting Organic and Biochemistry: A Curriculum Tweak That Benefits All

I. David Reingold
p 470
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p470
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Integrating Computational Chemistry into the Physical Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum: A Wet Lab/Dry Lab Approach

Mary E. Karpen , Julie Henderleiter and Stephanie A. Schaertel
p 475
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p475

Silver

Jay A. Young
p 478
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p478

Calcium

Jay A. Young
p 479
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p479

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 481
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p481
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Using a Graphing Calculator To Determine a First-Order Rate Constant

Todd P. Silverstein
p 485
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p485.1
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Using a Graphing Calculator To Determine a First-Order Rate Constant (author replies)

José E. Cortés-Figueroa
p 485
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p485.2
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How Students Use Scientific Instruments To Create Understanding: CCD Spectrophotometers. Can We Afford Affordances?

Roy W. Clark
p 486
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p486.1
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How Students Use Scientific Instruments To Create Understanding: CCD Spectrophotometers. We Must Afford Affordances (author's response)

Eric Malina , Mary B. Nakhleh
p 486
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p486.2
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A Simple Way To Determine the Composition of a Binary Mixture?

P. K. Thamburaj
p 487
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p487.1
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Correction re: J. Chem. Educ. 2004, 81, 65

p 487
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p487.2
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The Science of Cooking (Barham, Peter)

Cheryl Baldwin Frech
p 488
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p488
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The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table (Morris, Richard)

Daniel Berger
p 489
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p489.1
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The Chemcraft Story: The Legacy of Harold Porter (Tyler, John)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 489
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p489.2
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Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics (Dunn, Kevin M.)

Michael S. Matthews
p 490
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p490
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Survival Handbook for the New Chemistry Instructor (ED. Bunce, Diane M.; Muzzi, Cinzia M.)

Brian K. Taylor
p 491
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p491
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Chemistry for Everyone

The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Autopsy in Blue

Thomas G. Waddell and Thomas R. Rybolt
p 497
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p497

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Son of an Organic Chemist of Denmark

Ronald G. Brisbois
p 502
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p502

Bringing History to the Classroom: Spoofs about Problems in Obtaining Research Grants

Sidney Toby
p 503
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p503

Chemistry and Song: A Novel Way To Educate and Entertain

Cory C. Pye
p 507
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p507

In the Classroom

Using Science Fiction To Teach Thermodynamics: Vonnegut, Ice-nine, and Global Warming

Charles A. Liberko
p 509
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p509

The Big Picture: A Classroom Activity for Organic Chemistry

Thomas Poon
p 513
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p513

Organic Chemistry Wordsearch

Terry L. Helser
p 515
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p515

Functional Group Wordsearch

Terry L. Helser
p 517
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p517

The Proteomics Stock Market Project. A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Biochemistry and Business Education

Heath Keller , James R. Cox
p 519
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p519

Exothermic Bond Breaking: A Persistent Misconception

William C. Galley
p 523
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p523

Double-Diffusive Convection: A Simple Demonstration

Mario Markus , Richard W. Schaeffer
p 526
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p526

In the Laboratory

Isolation of Copper from a 5-Cent Coin. An Example of Electrorefining

Steven G. Sogo
p 530
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p530

Kinetics of the Osmotic Hydration of Chickpeas

Gabriel Pinto , Ali Esin
p 532
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p532

A Photochemical Reactor for the Study of Kinetics and Adsorption Phenomena

J. A. Poce-Fatou , M. L. A. Gil , R. Alcántara , C. Botella and J. Martín
p 537
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p537

A Practical Integrated Approach to Supramolecular Chemistry III. Thermodynamics of Inclusion Phenomena

Jesús Hernández-Benito , M. Pilar García-Santos , Emma O'Brien , Emilio Calle and Julio Casado
p 540
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p540

Color My Nanoworld

Adam D. McFarland , Christy L. Haynes , Chad A. Mirkin , Richard P. Van Duyne and Hilary A. Godwin
p 544A
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p544A

Patterning Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold. Green Materials Chemistry in the Teaching Laboratory

Lallie C. McKenzie , Lauren M. Huffman , Kathryn E. Parent and James E. Hutchison , John E. Thompson
p 545
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p545

Investigating Intermolecular Interactions via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. An Experiment for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

David Pullman and Karen I. Peterson
p 549
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p549
History, Education, and Documentation

Fluorescence Microscopy of Single Molecules

Jan Zimmermann , Arthur van Dorp and Alois Renn
p 553
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p553
Radiation Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Photographic and Other Reprographic Processes

Research: Science and Education

"We Actually Saw Atoms with Our Own Eyes". Conceptions and Convictions in Using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope in Junior High School

Hannah Margel , Bat-Sheva Eylon and Zahava Scherz
p 558
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p558

Factors Influencing Success in Physical Chemistry

Karen E. Hahn and William F. Polik
p 567
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p567

What Makes Physical Chemistry Difficult? Perceptions of Turkish Chemistry Undergraduates and Lecturers

Mustafa Sözbilir
p 573
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p573

Measuring Productivity in College-Level Chemistry Education Scholarship

Norbert J. Pienta
p 579
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p579
History, Education, and Documentation

Variability of the Cell Potential of a Given Chemical Reaction

Ilie Fishtik , Ladislav H. Berka
p 584
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p584

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

The Effective Use of an Interactive Software Program To Reduce Students' Misconceptions about Batteries

E.-M. Yang , T. J. Greenbowe and T. Andre
p 587
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p587
History, Education, and Documentation

Molecular Modeling of Environmentally Important Processes: Reduction Potentials

Donald G. Truhlar and Christopher J. Cramer , Anne Lewis and John A. Bumpus
p 596
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p596

The Big Picture

William F. Coleman
p 604
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p604
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Learning That Prepares for More Learning: Symbolic Mathematics in Physical Chemistry

Theresa Julia Zielinski
p 605
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p605
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Work Done During Reversible and Irreversible Isothermal Expansion of an Ideal Gas

Arthur Ferguson
p 606
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p606.1
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The Gibbs Free Energy of a Chemical Reaction System As a Function of the Extent of Reaction and the Prediction of Spontaneity

Arthur Ferguson
p 606
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p606.2
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Temperature as a Measure of the Distribution of Particles Over Energy States: Would a Negative Absolute Temperature be Very Cold, or Very Hot?

Arthur Ferguson
p 607
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p607.1
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Intermolecular Potentials and the Second Virial Coefficient

Patrick L. Holt
p 607
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p607.2
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Potential Barriers and Tunneling

Mark Ellison
p 608
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2004 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p608
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