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Exploring the overlap of chemistry and poetry. https://chemphasis.com/
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A Chem Week verse, from Scarborough four--
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme--
Theme varies slightly given the score,
For Mole Day mention, via quick rhyme.

#NationalChemistryWeek #MoleDay #ACS_NCW
#TheHiddenLifeOfSpices #AndHerbs
A science-art phrase diagnostic
Will center a compound base-caustic;
Attention un-wavers
On limelight’s behavior,
As trips the light koniaphostic.

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#Limelight #SciArt #Limericks #SciencePoetry
Observed in a day’s late through-farin’;
Impressive, a bird’s state (due sharin’):
With water-rush weathered
In stature quite feathered,
A sudden surprise… great blue heron!

#LimerickSunday
A cardinal’s hue, vivid-winging
As rainstorm sets branches to swinging;
Soon, blue skies aplenty
On day one-and-twenty
In back-and-forth-steps of May’s springing.

#SpringConstants #Limericks
To celebrate day metrologic
With global theme, STEM-philosophic,
This May marks attention
To Metre Convention
As sesquicentennial topic!

#WorldMetrologyDay #Limericks
Merits May Fourth an ode systematic
To far galaxy’s guide enigmatic,
Whose shifts anastrophic
With themes philosophic
Will invert lines to fame cinematic.

#LimerickSunday #Yoda
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
The month’s new-complete contribution
Re: concepts, reactions, allusions;
A break from spring’s stressing:
Chem-terms, verse-addressing,
In welcome routine’s resolution.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #NaPoWriMo2025
Acidic-environment feature:
Oft-stable reactant’s chem-cleaver.
The process provides
Alcohol and halide:
Two products formed out of the ether.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms
A radical initiation
Begins with bond-breaking notation.
Ensuing, next steps
Allow varied prospects.
(Some cases, polymerizations.)

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms #RadicalChemistry
Tomorrow’s view: Finals Week, finding
Last emails, announcements, remindings.
Spring weather enlivens;
Exams on horizon:
The path towards term’s end now is winding.

#NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday #FinalsWeek
The route deemed saponification,
Historical soap generation:
Now, path hydrolyzing
Is ester-incising
Through basic-solution causation.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms
Brilliantly, diligently,
Rosalind Franklin:
Her crystallographic skills,
Insights display;
Her expertise, honed
In X-ray diffraction:
Unwinds major mystery,
Reveals DNA.

#NaPoWriMo #DNADay #RosalindFranklin

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I think that I shall deem this eve
Of day to celebrate the leaves!
On morrow, Arbor Day awaits,
The verse-defying plants to fête.

#NaPoWriMo #EarthWeek #ArborDayEve #JoyceKilmer
All’s well that ends well, in comprising
Five acts and a plot galvanizing.
The world’s for the staging,
With narratives paging
Through dramas’ iambic feet, rising.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #HappyBirthday #Shakespeare
On Earth Day, note worthy intention
Of science’s close-paid attention:
See patterns emerging
From threads’ new-converging,
Revealing enriching dimensions.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #EarthDay #Observation
#RobinWallKimmerer
Sustainable week’s dedication:
A topical, yearly summation
With views interfacial.
This April’s theme: glacial,
In spring season’s chem-celebration!

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek
#CCEW #Sustainability #Glaciers
A morning’s song from bird-soprano,
In tree-set melodic crescendo;
The view, reminiscent
Of project long-distant,
Past print in a type of cyano.

#NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday
Element-naming:
Consider potassium,
Alkaline nature seen
Back in the day.
Saga through history:
Named after potash;
The Latin form, “kalium”;
Symbol is K.

#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab
Same atoms; distinct connectivities:
Two isomers’ key descriptivities.
With “parts being equal,”
Second structure’s a sequel
To first, in atomic vicinities.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
A read of the term here is literal:
“One hundred steps” seen in the interval
From boil to freeze
As we scale the degrees
In the temp’rature’s centigrade water-fall.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
Read past-astronomical ponderings,
Ideas of odysseys, conjuring.
Stars: fixed in the sky,
But some objects move by--
The planets, so deemed for their “wandering.”

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
A building-block term first-admissible;
To everyday vision, invisible,
The atom in logic
Most etymologic
Takes name from the Greek: “indivisible.”

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
Intro classes’
Sweeping natures:
Learn AND speak
The nomenclatures!
Some, acknowledged;
Many, hid;
Closer reads can
Build a bridge.

#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab #IsaacAsimov
With notes, marginalia, daydreaming—
Scrap paper as palette now seeming.
The lim’rick, non-thwartive:
A format supportive
In April’s routine, still-esteeming.

#NaPoWriMo #NearHalfwayPoint
#LimerickSunday #WritingCommunity
A heroine indelible in text…
Adventures, perplexed and complex:
A dawnzer’s lee light,
Creativity’s flights,
And keen interest in what happens next!

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks
#NationalLibraryWeek
#BeverlyCleary #RamonaQuimby