Extra Credit readings for the Winter
December 4, 2006
Extra credit Chemistry Readings #2
1) The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor by Robert W. Conn, Valery A. Chuyanov, Nabuyaki Inoue and Donald R. Sweetman; Scientific American April 1992 Volume 266 Number 4 pgs. 102 to 110
2) Solid Acid Catalysts, by Sir Meurig Thomas; Scientific American April 1992 Volume 266 Number 4 pgs 112 to 118
3) Ten Years of the Chernobyl Era, by Yuri M. Shcherbak; Scientific American April 1996 Volume 274 Number 4, pgs.44 to 49
4) Electrides, by James L. Dye; Scientific American September 1987 Volume 257 Number 3 pgs. 66 to 75
5) Oscillating Chemical Reactions, by Epstein, Kenneth Kustin, Patrick De Kepper and Miklon Orban; Scientific American March 1983 Volume 248 Number 3, pgs. 112 to 123
6) Earth’s Elements, by Robert P. Kirshner; Scientific American, October 1994 Number 4 pgs. 58 to 65
7) Stress-Corrosion Failure, by Peter R. Swann; Scientific American February 1966 Volume 214 Number 2, pgs. 72 to 81
8) Self-Assembling Materials, by George M. Whitesides; Scientific American September 1995 Volume 273 Number 3 pgs. 146 to 149
9) Making New Elements, by PAUL Armbruster and Fritz Peter Hessberger; Scientific American, September 1998 Volume 279 Number 3 pgs 72 to 77
10) Life’s Rocky Start, by Robert M. Hazen: Scientific American April 2001 Volume 284 number 4 pgs. 76 to 85
11) Making Metallic Hydrogen, by William Nellis; Scientific American May 2000 Volume 282 Number 5 pgs. 84 to 90
12) Energy to Burn, by Neil deGrasse Tyson; Natural History, October 2002 Volume 115 Number 8 pgs 14 to 20
13) A Plentitude of Life, by Edward F. Delong; Natural History, May 2002 Volume 112 Number 4 pgs. 40 to 46
