[Stylist] Periodic Table Poem

Tue Apr 2 19:40:42 UTC 2019

I like the concept of this.  That inspires me to finish my more humorous
prose work I started about the periodic table some months ago.  I have
called it Elements Out of Style, a nod to Pinker's writing guide the Sense
of Style and the classic Strunk and White guide The Elements of Style.  

This is a good tme to be producing these works, as we are a hundred fifty
years on from the composition of the original periodic table in 1869.  

Bill Outman 

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Also for anyone reading the attachment there are mistakest are not in the
pasted one. Yeah, I see it didn't break it right. It rhymes in couplets. 
 Barbara Hammel

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 13:12, Jacobson, Shawn D via Stylist
<stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Wow!  Quite a poem.  That took some work to put together.
> 
> I think you had some missing line breaks, so lines kind-of kept going on.
> 
> Just the same, very interesting.
> 
> Shawn
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> 
> Ok!  I finished that crazy poem!  Well, it may not be totally done but at
least it's a draft.  I'll attach it and post it in the body.  If you don't
like - or           can't read - the attachment, each line is supposed to
have fourteen syllables but there is no set meter.
> 
> Barbara Hammel
> 
>  PERIODIC TABLE POEM
>    by Barbara Hammel
> 
> The Periodic Table looks so crazy at first glance, But there's structure
in that colorful, chaotic expanse.
> Atomic number orders them from one to one-one-eight.
> Before we delve in deeper, there are things we must get straight.
> 
> Each row is called a period, each column is a group, Row properties vary,
columns not so much, in this troupe.
> The elements across each row have one to seven shells, But only scientists
need know where each electron dwells.
> The columns tell us what elements have to gain or lose, In the number of
valence electrons, the ones they use For bonding with each other 'cuz that's
how they interact To form everything in our universe and that's a fact.
> As you go down the periods each shell gets broken down Into more subshells
these little electrons spin aroun'.
> This is why, of s-, p-, d- and f-block you sometimes hear, But it's way
too complicated to get in for this sphere.
> All we need know, row 1 and 2 are s- and in between
> 3 to 12 are d-, f- below, p- 13 to 18.
> 
> Hydrogen and Helium are atop the left and right They sit alone, above the
rest, because they are so light.
> The lanthanides and actinides are rows that sit below But as this poem
rambles on you'll learn where they should go.
> 
> With one valence electron, alkalis are in group one, They react to air and
water with quite an explosion.
> In this group are Hydrogen, Lithium, and Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium,
Cesium, Francium.
> Group 2 is called the alkalines, they're calmer by a tad, They have two
valence electrons, so don't get quite as mad.
> This group consists of Beryllium and Magnesium, Calcium and Strontium,
Barium and Radium.
> 
> Still with 2 valence electrons, in 3 to 12 we see The transition metals
which have good conductivity.
> Group 3 has Scandium, Yttrium, and the Lanthanides In period 6 and in 7
are the Actinides.
> They sit below because more shells mean more subshells to dock Electorns,
making them f-block, but the rest are d-block.
> If these two rows of fifteen had been added at this place This Periodic
Table would take up a LOT of space.
> The Lanthanides are first with Lanthanum, and Cerium, Followed by
Praseodymium, Neodymium, And Promethium, Samarium, and Europium, Next to
Gadolinium, Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium and Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, The
final one of our upper group is Lutetium.
> Below are ,actinides with Actinium, Thorium, Protactinium, Uranium, and
Neptunium, Plutonium's next to Americium, Curium, Berkelium, and
Californium, Einsteinium, With ,fermium, Mendelevium and Nobelium, Then the
last of this lower group is Lawrencium.
> 
> Group 4 has Titanium, Zirconium, Hafnium, And Rtherfordium. There's Group
5 with Vanadium, Which is above Niobium, Tantalum, Dubnium, Then Group 6
comes along with Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, and Seaborgium. 7 starts
with Manganese, Technetium, Rhenium, Bohrium. On to 8, please, Iron's above
Ruthenium, Osmium, Hassium, Group 9 is next with Cobalt, Rhodium, Iridium,
Meitnerium. Then 10 with Nickel and Palladium In the spaces above Platinum,
and Darmstadtium.
> 11's got Copper, Silver, Gold and Roentgenium,
> 12 has Zinc, Cadmium, Mercury, Copernicium.
> 
> Before we meet the elements these tricky groups contain Let's discuss what
makes their family members somewhat the same.
> The first group over here we call the Boron Family, They're called the
Icosagens, with valence electrons three.
> Next are the crystallogens, or tetrels, because they have four Valence
electro ns ready to bond with any four more.
> Group 15 are the Pnicogens, and five they have in play, And 16 are the
Chalcogens with 6 to go or stay.
> At this end of the table divisions are not as neat, For instance, the
metalloids meander a stair-step street.
>                `
> 13 has one with Boron, then down to Aluminum, Gallium, Indium, Thallium,
and Nihonium.
> Group 14's head is Carbon, then two metalloids sneak in:
> Silicon and Germanium, then below them is tin And Lead and Flerovium. 15
leads with Nitrogen, And Phosphorus, our two: Arsenic, Antimony, then
Bismuth, and Moscovium. 16 will complete our stair But first Oxygen, Sulfur,
and Selenium are there.
> Our last two metalloids, Tellurium, Polonium, And the final one of the
group is Livermorium.
> 
> Halogens need one electron to make their shells complete So 17, like Group
1, has a temper not so sweet.
> This volatile group has Fluorine and Chlorine and Bromine, And underneath
are Iodine, Astatine, Tennessine.
> Group 18, on the right, are the aerogens, or noble Gases, with full outer
shells which keeps them quite immobile.
> This group includes Helium, Neon, Argon, and Krypton, Xenon and Radon and
last of all is Oganesson.
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