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Viana, Hélio Elael Bonini; Porto, Paulo Alves – Journal of Chemical Education, 2013
This paper presents a history of chemistry case study focusing on selected aspects of the work of American engineer Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889-1944): the development of tetraethyl lead as an antiknock gasoline additive and of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as fluids for refrigeration devices. One general aim of this case study is to display the complex…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Case Studies, Mechanics (Process), Science Teachers
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Wotiz, John H., Ed.; Pearson, Ralph G. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1978
Describes the scientists and the work they did to study mechanisms of stable complexes of cobalt (III) using kinetic methods. Traces the work from 1946 to the present. (MA)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Kinetics, Mechanics (Process)