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Detector show( h t t p : / /w w w . s h s u . e d u /~chm_tgc/sounds/p u s h m o v i e s /aed.mov.gif).

More on instru-mental analyses canbe found on the Or-ganic ChemistryOnLine site by PaulR. Young of the Uni-versity of Illinois atChicago (http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/toc.htm).His Proton NMR practice sets show spectra matched withmolecular formulas. Good hints accompany these problems,making this a fine site for your students. Look at the clearspectrum of C3H6O2 from the first problem set (http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/spec/H_NMR1.htm). Besure to look around while you are at this amazing site forgood theory, great review sets, and problem sets on stereo-chemistry, addition reactions, and bonding. Don’t miss the

QuickTime mov-ies in the sectionon IR spectros-copy, completewith several ex-amples, for ex-ample, the sym-metric stretchingof water (http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/w e b 1 / o c o l /Movie/Vib2.htm).

Speaking ofsearching, do you

remember that great animation or the fine movie you sawon the Internet, but forgot to bookmark? Luckily WEB-steris here to help (http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/orgchem/Web-sters_Org_Chem.html). This resource site by Nick Turro ofColumbia University and Ron Rusay of Diablo Valley Col-lege/ UC Berkeley serves as a collection agency for chemi-cal educators and students. The storehouse is divided intomany compartments, one of which is Graphics and Anima-tions: http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/orgchem/graphics.html.Want to find something? You might do well to check WEB-sters Organic Chemistry first.

World Wide Web Addresses

Atomic Emission Detector: http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/sounds/pushmovies/aed.mov.gif

Thomas G. Chasteen’s Page of Movies, Sounds, and GIFAnimations: http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/sounds/

News from On-Lineby Carolyn Sweeney Judd

Now that we have found all these great things on theWorld Wide Web, what can we do with them? I mean le-gally? Never fear, again the Web comes to your rescue! TheConference on Fair Use (CONFU) Interim Report (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/) summa-rizes the work of more than 95 organizations dedicated toestablishing fair use guidelines for librarians and educatorswhile also representing copyright owners. CONFU was ini-tiated in 1994 as part of the national government’s effort topromote the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Goto this site and look for Guidelines for Fair Use for DigitalImages, Distance Learning, and Educational Multimedia.Read the special cautions about material from the Internet,special allowances for retention of projects for tenure review,and permitted uses by students for class projects.

And speaking of well-documented sources, the Webbookof the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) (http://webbook.nist.gov/) is astounding—5000 IRspectra, 8000 mass spectra, plus heats of reactions, ioniza-tion energies, and more. Search by Formula, Name, Partialformula, CAS registry number, Molecular weight, Ionizationenergy, and Proton affinity. Searching is quick and easy, andthe wealth of data returned is well-tabulated for ease ofuse—with a multitude of references. I used the database togenerate this IR spectrum of acetone (http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.exe?Name=acetone&Units=SI&cIR=on&cTC=on#IR-Spec). The proper citation for thespectrum is S. E. Stein, “Mass and IR Spectra Data” inNIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, Eds. W. G.Mallard and P. J. Linstrom, February 1997, National Insti-tute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899(http://webbook.nist.gov/).

Now back to the fun part. Thomas G. Chasteen of SamHouston State University has created a great site, completewith QuickTime movies and sound bites to explain severalinstruments (http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/sounds/sound.html). Look here for Pulsed Flame Photometric De-tector, Photomultiplier Tube, GC/MS, and more. If you don’thave QuickTime, this site provides a GIF slide show with-out sound. The movies are large (1.7 MB for Atomic Emis-sion Detector) when compared with the parallel GIF ani-mations (81 k). Here is a graphic from the Atomic Emission

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sound.html

Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) Interim Report: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/

Symmetric stretching of water: http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/Movie/Vib2.htm

Webbook of the National Institute of Standards andTechnology (NIST): http://webbook.nist.gov/

WEB-sters Graphics and Animations: http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/orgchem/graphics.html

WEB-sters Organic Chemistry: http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/orgchem/Web-sters_Org_Chem.html

Paul R. Young’s Organic Chemistry OnLine site: http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/toc.htm

Carolyn Sweeney Judd teaches at Houston CommunityCollege System, 1300 Holman, Houston, TX 77004; 713/718-6052; cjudd@tenet.edu.