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Moreover, the introductory chemistry course, along with introductory calculus, serves as a foundation course to technical careers. Unpleasant experiences in these courses or poor performance in them often results in the loss of these students from the future technical labor-force pipeline. Enhancing the appeal of these courses is a viable strategy for kindling interest in technical careers across the spectrum of student customers . For the many students who will not pursue technical careers, a materials-oriented chemistry course can provide a sense of relevance by connecting chemistry to advanced materials and devices that we increasingly encounter in everyday life. 

Many of the ideas necessary to help describe and explain superconductivity involve topics you will encounter in future chemistry courses. Even armed with these ideas, however, researchers do not yet have a complete, accepted theory to explain this intriguing property. Nevertheless, the list of superconducting materials continues to expand, and engineers continue to find practical applications for them. 

We have now encountered a number of different types of arrow routinely used in chemistry to convey particular meanings. We have met curly arrows used in mechanisms, double-headed resonance arrows, equilibrium arrows, and the simple single arrows used for reactions. This is a convenient point to bring together the different types and provide a checklist for future reference. We are also showing how additional information about a reaction may be presented with the arrow. 

In the article of Kaarls and Quinn [34] primary methods are carefully defined as methods for the determination of the amount of substance in pure or simple compound systems, i.e. in samples which do not contain impurities acting as potential interferences. It is explicitly stated that it is a future task of the CCQM to investigate the applicability and robustness of these methods for complex mixtures encountered in practical analytical chemistry. Many other papers (e.g. [36]), however, tend to identify primary methods already as methods of analysis (to be used on complex samples of unknown overall composition). This over-optimistic (and unwarranted) enlargement of the definition implies that all titrimetric methods of analysis would be considered as primary methods putting aside any interference that occurs in complex samples. Considering all possible sources of error that may occur in both the stoichiometry of the reaction and with the determination of the equivalence point of a titration, this cannot be possible. Neither was this the intention of the CCQM. 

Hooke contributed substantially to the advancement of chemistry. In addition to his work with Boyle, he pointed to some directions for future chemical research. In his book describing his observations with a microscope, Micrographia, Hooke put forth a theory of combustion in which he states that a substance common to both potassium nitrate and air, nitrous air, is the agent of combustion. But as with many of his insights, he did not pursue the idea further (a habit that was the source perhaps, of his perception that others usurped his ideas), leaving this to the next person we encounter, John Mayow. 

Real difficulties remain when attempts are made to predict, to extrapolate, or even to interpolate data for multicomponent mixtures containing hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, etc. Such systems were affectionately identified as a Krolikowski mess at the conference. Multicomponent mixtures of this kind may include more than one liquid and/or solid phase and with components that commit chemistry as well as physically distribute between the phases are commonly encountered in industrial practice. The goal for the future is to reduce these problems from nightmare to headache proportions in industrial applications, though they may continue to remain an enigma for the theoretician. 

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