ISOTOPICS
The Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society
Volume 88
Issue 8
Nov 2012
November Meeting Notice
On Deck:
January 16, 2013
Location:
Sterle’s Country House
Plenary Speaker:
Dennis Flood
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Lincoln Electric, Cleveland
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30 pm
Executive Committee Meeting
Social Hour
Dinner
Tours of Lincoln Electric
Tour of Lincoln Electric: The Chemistry of Welding
Terry Zak, Chemical & Raw Material Group, Lincoln Electric
Cleveland ACS Officers
Chair:
Kat Wollyung
PerkinElmer, Inc., Akron
330-686-0056
ACS.NCW.Kat@gmail.com
Chair-Elect:
Don Jaworske
NASA Glenn Research Center
216-433-2312
Donald.A.Jaworske@nasa.gov
Treasurer:
John Moran
Department of Science and
Mathematics
Phone: 216-373-6380
jmoran@ndc.edu
Secretary:
Anna Cronin
cronina@glsc.org
Cleveland Section Web Site:
http://www.csuohio.edu/sciences
/dept/cleveland_acs/
Come visit The Lincoln Electric Company for a special tour of the
Chemical, Mechanical and Microscopy Laboratories. The tour will focus on
how chemistry is used in the welding industry. Come see the
instrumentation and methods used in the analysis of raw materials, finished
products and weld deposits. Explore the relationship between chemical
composition, mechanical properties and microstructure.
DINNER RESERVATIONS REQUIRED:
Please RSVP by contacting Don Jaworske by email at silver5695@hotmail
(preferred) or by phone at 216-534-9690 by com by Thursday November
9 at noon with your name, total number of guests in your party, and a
phone number. Checks made out to ―Cleveland ACS‖ are greatly
appreciated; cash otherwise. $20 for members and guests, $10 for retirees
or unemployed, $5 for students. Dinner will include Cheese and Cracker
Specialty Tray, Vegetable Tray, Stuffed Cabbage, Garden Salad, Green
Bean Almondine, and Mashed Potatoes.
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Directions to the Lincoln Electric
Company
World Headquarters
22801 St. Clair Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44117
American Chemical Society Cleveland Section
Speaker Bio
Terry began his career at the Lincoln Electric
Company in the Chemical Laboratory. He has
extensive experience in analytical chemistry
having worked at a commercial testing laboratory
for twenty years prior to joining Lincoln Electric.
Terry spent two years in the Submerged Arc Flux
Group where his focus was raw material
substitutions and product redesign. He is currently
part of the Chemical and Raw Material Group.
Terry has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in
Geology from Cleveland State University. He is a
member of the Global Sourcing Team at Lincoln
Electric.
Selected from ACS Discoveries!
A complete solution for oil-spill cleanup
From the West, South or Airport:
Go through downtown Cleveland and follow
route 90, I-480 or I-71 to Route 90 East. Exit the
Interstate at East 222nd St. (exit 183). Turn Right
(South) to St. Clair intersection, Left Turn onto
St. Clair, the main entrance is about a 1/2 mile
down the road.
From the East or South
Via Interstate 90 North to Cleveland and via
Route 2, Exit the Interstate at East 222nd St (exit
183). Turn left at traffic light and proceed to St.
Clair Ave (next intersection heading South) Turn
Left onto St. Clair, main entrance is about a 1/2
mile down the road.
Energy & Fuels
Scientists are describing what may be a ―complete
solution‖ to cleaning up oil spills — a
superabsorbent material that sops up 40 times its
own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an
oil refinery and processed to recover the oil. Their
article on the material appears in ACS’ journal
Energy & Fuels.
T. C. Mike Chung and Xuepei Yuan point out that
current methods for coping with oil spills like the
2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster are low-tech,
decades-old and have many disadvantages.
Corncobs, straw and other absorbents, for
instance, can hold only about 5 times their own
weight and pick up water, as well as oil. Those
materials then become industrial waste that must
be disposed of in special landfills or burned.
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Their solution is a polymer material that
transforms an oil spill into a soft, solid oilcontaining gel. One pound of the material can
recover about 5 gallons of crude oil. The gel is
strong enough to be collected and transported.
Then, it can be converted to a liquid and refined
like regular crude oil. That oil would be worth
$15 when crude oil sells for $100 a barrel.
―Overall, this cost-effective new polyolefin oilSAP technology shall dramatically reduce the
environmental impacts from oil spills and help
recover one of our most precious natural
resources,‖ the authors said.
The authors acknowledge funding from the
National Science Foundation and Ben Franklin
Technology Partners.
50- and 60-Year Members
The ACS Division of Membership and Scientific
Advancement and our local section marked a
milestone by some of our section members, noting
their 50 or 60 years of membership in and service
to the ACS. The members were invited to the
October meeting at Cleveland State University.
They will all receive certificates celebrating this
achievement. Our thanks and congratulations go
out to:
50-Year Members
Dr. Richard E. Fruit
Dr. Frederick W. Koch
Dr. Karl W. Ohly
Dr. Robert Arthur Taller
60-Year Members
Dr. David Cornell
Dr. J. Stuart Fordyce
Dr. Malcolm E. Kenney
Dr. Irvin Mitchell Krieger
Mr. Francis John Wille
Help Rejuvenate the Cleveland ACS
Committees!
Chair positions are open or in need of assistance
for the following Committees.
If you are
interested in filling the position, or perhaps
American Chemical Society Cleveland Section
working with someone to co-chair a position,
please contact the Cleveland section ACS Chair,
Kat (Kathleen) Wollyung at 330-686-0056 or
acs.ncw.kat@gmail.com. Descriptions of each
position and its responsibilities can be found in the
Job Manual at our Section’s website listed on the
front page of this newsletter.
Positions include:
Student Affiliates
Younger Chemists
Career Services
Social Affairs
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day
Continuing Education
High School Affairs
This month’s focus: Younger Chemists The role of the Younger Chemists Committee
(YCC) is to encourage younger chemists, defined
as those under 35 years of age or with less than 5
years of professional experience, to become active
in the local and National ACS. The chair of this
committee is a nonvoting member of the
Executive Committee.
The YCC should sponsor events that cater to the
age group and professional experience of their
target audience. These events can include, but are
not limited to: professional development events
such as career nights, social events such as
picnics, or industrial tours. The YCC should
sponsor at least one of these events per year.
In addition, the YCC should co-sponsor a dinner
meeting with the Section, choosing a topic that
would be of interest to younger chemists.
Traditionally, this meeting is held in the Fall. The
YCC can encourage younger chemists to come by
offering a less expensive dinner price.
Electronic Ballots Coming to Cleveland
ACS - Cleveland Section will begin to transition
to electronic voting for our executive committee
positions. This is an exciting move for the section,
as electronic voting is not only a more
environmentally friendly option, but also
financially sound. At this time if you receive
Isotopics electronically you will receive an
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electronic ballot for the upcoming election, unless
you opt out and request a paper ballot by emailing the Section Secretary Anna Cronin –
cronina@glsc.org by Monday November 12. If
you currently receive a print version of Isotopics
in the mail, you will continue to receive your
paper ballot as before
Cleveland Section Wins Another
ChemLuminary Award
At the National Meeting & Exposition in
Philadelphia in August, the Cleveland Section
received the news that we had been awarded
another ChemLuminary Award from ACS for our
National Chemistry Week program. The award
was for Outstanding On-Going Event and was
submitted by Lois Kuhns of our NCW Planning
Committee, which has been chaired by Bob
Fowler for the past few years.
For the 24th year, the NCW Committee volunteers
developed an original storyline and experiments
to be performed by the attending children. They
along with additional volunteers prepared selfcontained program kits and gave hands-on
presentations to children ages 8-12 throughout the
Cuyahoga County Public Library system during
NCW in October.
ChemLuminary Awards are given by National to
local Sections for outstanding National Chemistry
Week activities in nine different categories. Our
Cleveland Section has won over a dozen
ChemLuminary Awards over the past several
years, undoubtedly making our Section’s NCW
program one of the most successful in the country.
Congratulations to all who have been a part of
Cleveland’s NCW Program! Please join us in
thanking the NCW Planning Committee yet
again!
National Historic Chemical Landmark
DayGlo Fluorescent Pigments was selected as a
2012 ―ACS National Historic Chemical
Landmark‖. The celebration held at The Great
Lakes Science Center was a success.
Approximately 150 adults and children of DayGlo
American Chemical Society Cleveland Section
employees and ACS members were in attendance.
Bill Carroll (ACS Director at Large and Director
of the Board for 2012) presented the award, Helen
Meyer presented history about the landmark
awards received in Cleveland, and she and the
President of DayGlo gave a presentation on
DayGlo’s impressive history – starting all the way
from the family accident that initiated the curiosity
into fluorescence.
After the dinner and
presentation, the Great Lakes Science Center and
Omnimax were then open for all attendees.
The commemorative plaque at Day-Glo Color
Corp. reads:
DayGlo fluorescent pigments, a new class of
pigments based on fluorescent dyes and polymeric
materials, were developed between the 1930s and
1950s by scientists at Switzer Brothers, Inc (now
Day-Glo Color Corp.). These pigments absorb
various light frequencies (visible and invisible to
the human eye) and reemit them, producing
intense visible colors that appear to glow, even in
daylight. Switzer Brothers, Inc., introduced novel
processes that eliminated the limitations in
lightfastness and color strength of earlier
fluorescent pigments, resulting in new applications
in advertising, packaging, flaw detection and
safety. These products were used to support
Allied troops during World War II, were
immortalized in psychedelic posters of the 1060s,
and are familiar today in the bright colors of toys,
construction cones and safety vests.
Cleveland Section Webinar
The Cleveland Section of the American Chemical
Society is exploring the possibility of hosting a
webinar in December in lieu of a December
meeting. For this pilot project, Professor David
Ball will present a webinar on his experiences as a
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the US Air
Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Planning is
still under way, however, look for an email in
early December providing the date and time, as
well as the details on the webinar website, call-in
number, and pass code.
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