Editor’s Roundtable: An air of respectability

by: Inez Liftig

Hold up an open container without any obvious liquid or solid in it and ask a typical class what’s in the container, and you will readily and enthusiastically get the response, “Nothing.” Out of sight, out of mind is a fair summation of how most middle-level students “view” air and gases. With its collection of gas-related lessons, this issue of Science Scope will help you to change your students’ perception that “air is nothing.”

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 4/1/2010Stock # ss10_033_08_1Volume 033Issue 08

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