Describes the launching of the Council for Chemical Research, a nonprofit organization with the major goal of boosting industry's financial support for academic research in chemistry and chemical engineering. Includes the results of a survey of industry support for university research. (DS)

Describes a one-semester, three-credit hour course integrating the fundamentals of kinetics and the scientific/engineering principles of heterogeneous catalysis. Includes course outline, list of texts, background readings, and topical journal articles. (SK)

Presented are views on prospects and retrospects in chemical education. The teaching of elementary chemistry is also discussed. (HM)

Discussed are the calculations of heats of combustions of some selected fossil fuel compounds such as some foreign shale oils and United States coals. Heating values for coal- and petroleum-derived fuel oils are also presented. (HM)

Reviews research on the uses and potentialities of television in education with emphasis on work done with chemistry programs. Television is also compared with film from the viewpoints of producer and audience, and off-air recordings are compared with "home-made" programs. Forty-four references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Describes pulse radiolysis as a useful means in studing one-electron redox potentials. This method allows the production of radicals and the determination of their concentration and rates of reaction. (CS)

Discusses a method to solve problems in stoichiometry which can also be applied to other problems involving relationships between constituents in a chemical reaction. Students with little prior knowledge of chemistry can successfully use the method. (Author/SK)

Describes the rationale, format and procedures, unique features, and educational and instructional aims of "The Young Chemist," a simulation game model for the methodology of logical process to be used as a teaching device within the traditional high school chemistry curriculum. (Author/CMV)

Provides a systematic presentation of methods of standard addition in instrumental analysis in spectrophotometry, atomic absorption, and electrochemistry. (CS)

Provides exam questions and solutions for a problem in amplification sequence of reactions, and a problem in applying group theory techniques and making spectral assignments and structural determination by qualitative arguments in the bonding in metal complexes. (CS)

Discusses natural carcinogens found in the environment, including background radiation, the ultraviolet component of sunlight, plants, and microorganisms. (CS)

Describes ways in which a stationary mirror ball can be used to demonstrate X-ray diffraction in an undergraduate general chemistry course. (CS)

Provides information for performing demonstrations on the synthesis and decomposition of zinc iodide and on the preparation and properties of polybutadiene (jumping rubber). (CS)

Discusses some of the problems associated with the organization of a British chemistry course. Results that can be achieved in this Mode 3 O-Level chemistry course are also discussed. (HM)

Presents 12 chemistry notes for British secondary school teachers. Some of these notes are: (1) a simple device for testing pH-meters; (2) portable fume cupboard safety screen; and (3) Mass spectroscopy-analysis of a mass peak. (HM)