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ERIC Number: EJ554542
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-9584
Chemistry in the Public Domain: A Plethora of Misinformation--or, Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Newspapers!
Toby, Sidney
Journal of Chemical Education, v74 n11 p1285-87 Nov 1997
Presents examples of various kinds of chemical misinformation culled from newspapers and magazines. Excerpts vary from the comic to the tragic--some errors are conceptual and others are quantitative. Appropriate questions and answers are included. (DKM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Higher Education, Misconceptions, Newspapers, Periodicals, Science Education, Secondary Education
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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