JCE classroom activity #113: An interlocking building block activity in writing formulas of ionic compounds

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1436-1438

  Ruddick, Kristie R ^a   Parrill, Abby L ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical Education Research; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; High School Introductory Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Nomenclature Units Symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867475289     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed200513y     Document Type: Article

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