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Two squirrels alike in dignity Are scaling yonder walnut tree! Concurrent path is rarely seen; Symmetric-ish in summer green. A scamper-clamber’s quick ascent; Sequential pacing, circumvent.
The common meter, standardized, We celebrate/display To center world’s metrology On most auspicious day. One-fifty-one: the years have passed Since first convention’s scene; Now, seven SI units stem From nature's constancy. #MetreConvention #WorldMetrologyDay #InternationalSystemOfUnits
A moment of sunrise-brainstorming Shifts view from the vision conforming; Intention-selective In choice of perspective: A musical staff in the morning. #Limericks
Do or do not; no “try”: Force-insistent. Citing rebels and allies resistant, Sagas epic ensue From distinct points of view, Long ago, in a galaxy distant. #Limericks #StarWars #Yoda #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
Eighth attempt: full octet, now achieving! (The pace of time, still disbelieving.) April’s theme: web-immerse Welcome break of light verse With chemistry’s words, interweaving. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks
A near-automatic reliance On matters of instinct and guidance With nuance observed And key efforts conserved, Once routine gets down to a science. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks
A phrase known, first, as metaphoric, Revealed as a test of things auric! Gold’s non-reactivity; Nitric acid’s vicinity; Their context in settings historic. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #AcidTest
Measured-endeavor-ly, Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Will study STEM concepts And insights behold; Temp’rature scale used in Thermodynamics Cites absolute zero As ultimate cold. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #WilliamThomson #AbsoluteZero #ZeroKelvin
When famous non-mixtures will roil, Note layered molecular toil; A point here admissible: Some compounds, immiscible! The well-known case: water and oil. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #LikeOilAndWater
Reviewing STEM-centric verbosity, Find catalyst-themed etymology. From Greek, the term’s pieced: “En-zyme,” from “in yeast,” Yields biochem-parsing cartography. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #DNADay #Biochem #EnzymeEtymology
I think that I shall always find, For Arbor Day, this verse-form kind. Iambic feet of Kilmer’s ode: Botanic celebration code. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #JoyceKilmer #ArborDay
What is the question? Search what’s past as prologue; Find method (less madness) With rhyme and with reason; Be-all and end-all: NON-foregone conclusions; Thereby hangs a tale. Soon, the glorious season! #NaPoWriMo #Shakespeare #WritingLabReports #EndingSpringSemester
A cardinal, a pebble, the thunder… Phenomena countless in number. Each morning’s observing; Perspectives, unswerving: We walk in the middle of wonders. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #EarthDay #JohnHerschel #MaryOliver
After your lab, When the data you wield, Consider your calcs And evaluate…
The structural formula: lending A newfound depiction, augmenting Compound’s connectivity Through visual proclivity; First step t’ward 3-D orienting. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #ChemicalFormulas #StructuralFormula
Molecular formula’s mission For compound: precise definition Of the atoms involved. (Sans, though, structure resolved!) Exact chemical composition. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #ChemicalFormulas #MolecularFormula
Denote compound’s key data, clerical, In ratio set whole-numerical: Relationship simple For chemical symbols, The formula known as empirical. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #ChemicalFormulas #EmpiricalFormula
Two-weeks-plus of new attempts drafted, With chem into poems adapted: The rhyming routine Takes its shape on the screen, As April marks halfway point “passèd.” #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks
Approaching the term’s affirmation Of seniors’ accomplished elation… Lab cylinder’s code Is a useful spring mode: Through measured steps, reach graduation! #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry #GraduatedCylinder
The metals denoted transition Will occupy bridging position Betwixt the groups main That the Table contains In elements’ chart-recognition. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #TransitionMetals #PeriodicTableOfTheElements
Draft-revision forms, eclectic: Underdrawings deemed authentic; Pentimenti palimpsestic; Process stories, most aesthetic. #NaPoWriMo #ChemistryInArt #PaintingLayers
Cyanotype-themed in its topic, Lab notes photochemical logic With stencils and sun. Once process is done, Find prints themed in blue, most rhapsodic! #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #ChemistryInArt #Cyanotypes #Gershwin
Note light’s seeming-tangible scattering; A sunset, ostensibly “matter-ing”; Crepuscular rays In these long-evening days, With twilight depictions most flattering. #NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday
Post week-and-a-half trip’s duration Of lunar and space exploration… To Artemis 2: Welcome back, valiant crew, With over-the-moon exultation! #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #Artemis
Two roles, both chem-crucial, aligned here, In artistic combo’s reminder; Blend a bright-vivid tint With an adhesive’s stint: A paint is a pigment plus binder. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #ChemistryInArt #PaintComposition
In blue’s lapis-lazuli fashion, A natural pigment’s duration; Now ultramarine As synthetic, too, seen— From beyond-the-sea inspiration. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #ChemistryInArt #UltramarineBlue #Pigments
A most helpful late-spring-term idiom, With chalk-on-the-sidewalk as medium. New resolve, activate; Peace of mind, cultivate, As we aim to regain….
A chem-in-art term: hue-degrading; Intent of the artist, evading. The “fugitive pigment” As putative figment, With color scheme, speedily fading. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #ChemistryInArt #FugitivePigment
Today’s early-April notation: A moment of chem-contemplation. Past efforts, perennial, Reach sesquicentennial, In STEM-centered spring celebration! #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks #AmericanChemicalSociety #ACS150