Chemphasis

Exploring the overlap of chemistry and poetry, a few lines at a time.

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The #PeriodicPoetry contest was so much fun this summer, and this is great news! Thank you to @cenmag for the opportunity, to @MarySoonLee and @atomicromances for judging, and to @laurenkwolf for this article.

[C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag]

1ˢᵗ place: @chempasis
Judge @MarySoonLee says, “I particularly admire the poem’s rhythm and its playful use of eur-eka to reference the eka-elements that Mendeleev predicted.”
https://t.co/pfIWmWaXoB
#PeriodicPoetry

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The month and its practice now closing:
One last set of lines here composing;
The April routine,
As the poems convene,
Yielding busy month’s moments engrossing.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks

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A myria-myrio mystery—
Some prefixes, lost now to history:
These factors, past-metric,
Deemed over-eclectic
In measured decision’s delivery.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks
#OutdatedMetricPrefixes

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Musical, chemical:
Alex P. Borodin’s
Ideas, composed,
Address multiple goals.
Aldol reactions,
Symphonic protractions,
With staged reenactions
As kismet unfolds.

#NaPoWriMo #Music #Chemistry
#TwitterBiographies #AlexanderBorodin

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The test patterns: finally fading;
Exam Week is done. Next, the grading
And year’s celebration
Of learnèd elation:
Commencement on Sunday, awaiting.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #Limericks

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I think that verse shall never serve
To summarize botanic verve
With which the trees persist, delight—
But: given day, four lines I’ll write.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry
#JoyceKilmer #ArborDay

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Consider the protein as topic
Of int’rest most etymologic:
A vocab-themed mission
Reflects first position
Through protean path biologic!

#Berzelius #Mulder #BiochemDay
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry

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A need for alkene can be fill-ed
Through synthetic effort most skill-ed:
Reaction approaching,
On ketone encroaching,
Employing the chem of the ylide.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry
#WittigReaction #OrganicChemistry

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Art, science in consonant quoting:
Provoking, exploring, denoting;
Mirrors held up to nature.
(Contrast nomenclatures,
But compare the efforts’ keynoting.)

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry
#Hamlet #Shakespeare #HappyBirthdayShakespeare

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An April week noted by chemists
Cheers sustainability tenets.
This spring’s theme: the battery;
Saluting its mastery
In energy-storage investments.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry
#ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW
#GetAChargeOutOfChemistry

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The Fischer esterification:
A catalyzed collaboration
‘Twixt alcohol, acid
Yields end product placid
Post sep funnel’s stratification.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks
#SciencePoetry #OrganicChemistry

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A spring Saturday celebration
In central-Ohio location:
Art, STEM, music, history;
Adventure and mystery…
A character-filled commendation!

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry
#OhioanaBookFestival

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Skies-organizingly,
Annie Jump Cannon,
With skills astronomical,
Science uplifts.
Data-insighting;
Intensities, citing;
Observing and writing;
Most stellar, her gifts.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry
#TwitterBiographies #Astronomy

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Exhibitions, recitals: ovations;
Thesis: writing, defense, then elation;
We celebrate clearing
Last hurdles, appearing.
(Ten days now ‘till spring graduation…)

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry
#CommencementCountdown

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The last step seeks well-planned giornata;
Compels fresco artist to plot a
Considered depiction
In workday’s restriction,
Avoiding time-limit errata!

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry
#ChemAndArt #FrescoCycle
#Giornata #Carbonatation

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Step two in the fresco art-making
Is quicklime’s hydrational slaking.
Lime plaster resulting
For next-step-constructing:
Adhering-to-wall undertakings.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry
#ChemAndArt #FrescoCycle

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In kiln-heating limestone, occasion
Of fresco’s first step: calcination.
The process, applied:
CO2 thus “excised,”
Yielding quicklime for next needed station.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #ChemAndArt
#FrescoCycle #Calcination

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Clockwise or counter?
Enantiomeric:
We note designation as R or S, seen.
Note how substituents
Yield structure “handed”:
A configurational naming routine.

#NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry
#OrganicChemistry #Stereochemistry

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Picture-book classic:
Consider the terrapin,
Facing the day
With defense first miscued;
Learning to balance
A shell-set employment
With needed steps…
As a wise turtle would do.

#NaPoWriMo #NationalLibraryWeek
#TurtleTale #FrankAsch

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Art to impart,
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler;
Sculpture donated; museum is set.
Claudia, Jamie
Sort out mixed-up files;
Work’s authentication
Is challenge well-Met.

#NaPoWriMo #NationalLibraryWeek #ELKonigsburg
#FromTheMixedUpFilesOfMrsBasilEFrankweiler

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Spider's web, wider:
In barn’s early morning,
Illumined in doorway, a
Shining silk grid.
Charlotte— no starlet;
True friend and good writer—
A heroine’s artistry
Spotlights “some pig.”

#NaPoWriMo #NationalLibraryWeek
#CharlottesWeb #EBWhite