Summarizes five papers presented at the Fourth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education that dealt with the impact of increased subscription costs of chemical information publications and ways of providing information services to students. (MLH)

Summarizes 12 papers presented at the Fourth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education that dealt with suggested modifications in the ideas and terminology taught in a variety of chemistry courses. (MLH)

Discusses the successes of the Fourth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education and lists its 400 participants. (MLH)

Discusses reasons why the use of student evaluations of their teachers has failed to achieve the intended purpose. (MLH)

Describes the use of various indicators to demonstrate chemical reactions; the display of sodium as a shiny metal; and the illustration of the attainment of chemical equilibrium with beakers of chemicals and an overhead projector. (MLH)

Lists some nomenclature rules for lower valent oxo acids of phosphorus and sulfer, including recent changes that have been made in some areas of this nomenclature. (MLH)

Describes the use of a Hewlett-Packard 9810A programmable desk calculator with plotter for drawing ball-and-line stereopairs as well as three-dimensional structural formulas which are useful for teaching stereochemical principles and molecular structure. (MLH)

Describes a computer program that generates a random string of amino acids and guides the student in determining the correct sequence of a given protein by using experimental analytic data for that protein. (MLH)

Consists of questions and answers on the chemistry of oil spills, the filtration capacity of the kidney, mercury concentration in the atmosphere, and oxidation of body wastes. (MLH)

Describes a course that introduces basic chemical principles using forensic chemistry topics. Provides a course outline and details on course content. (MLH)

Describes the process of self-regulation, which Piaget hypothesizes governs all intellectual growth, and suggests a way in which homework problems in a chemistry course can be used to provide students with an opportunity for self-regulation. (MLH)

Describes a pilot study in which a two-year junior college program designed to train chemical technicians was taught to a group of high school students. The concrete-operational program, entitled Modern Chemical Technology (MCT), was well received by the students. (MLH)

Describes an experiment that utilizes the techniques of temperature synthesis, crystallization from a molten salt, oxidation-reduction in a molten salt, powder X-ray diffraction and analysis by high temperature volatilization or a specific ion electrode. (MLH)

Reviews the principles of liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection (LCEC), an analytical technique that incorporates the advantages of both liquids chromatography and electrochemistry. Also suggests laboratory experiments using this technique. (MLH)

Describes an experiment that uses anodic stripping voltammetry as an alternative to atomic absorption for quantitating lead and cadmium leached from pottery samples. (MLH)