Chemphasis
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Exploring the overlap of chemistry and poetry.
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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
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme--
Theme varies slightly given the score,
For Mole Day mention, via quick rhyme.
#NationalChemistryWeek #MoleDay #ACS_NCW
#TheHiddenLifeOfSpices #AndHerbs
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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
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.
chemphasis.com/2025/10/08/l...
#Limelight #SciArt #Limericks #SciencePoetry
Will center a compound base-caustic;
Attention un-wavers
On limelight’s behavior,
As trips the light koniaphostic.
chemphasis.com/2025/10/08/l...
#Limelight #SciArt #Limericks #SciencePoetry
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A science-art phrase diagnostic
Will center a compound base-caustic;
Attention un-wavers
On limelight’s behavior,
As trips the light koniaphostic.
chemphasis.com/2025/10/08/l...
#Limelight #SciArt #Limericks #SciencePoetry
Will center a compound base-caustic;
Attention un-wavers
On limelight’s behavior,
As trips the light koniaphostic.
chemphasis.com/2025/10/08/l...
#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
Impressive, a bird’s state (due sharin’):
With water-rush weathered
In stature quite feathered,
A sudden surprise… great blue heron!
#LimerickSunday
May 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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
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
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
May 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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
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
With global theme, STEM-philosophic,
This May marks attention
To Metre Convention
As sesquicentennial topic!
#WorldMetrologyDay #Limericks
May 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
To celebrate day metrologic
With global theme, STEM-philosophic,
This May marks attention
To Metre Convention
As sesquicentennial topic!
#WorldMetrologyDay #Limericks
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
To far galaxy’s guide enigmatic,
Whose shifts anastrophic
With themes philosophic
Will invert lines to fame cinematic.
#LimerickSunday #Yoda
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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
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
Re: concepts, reactions, allusions;
A break from spring’s stressing:
Chem-terms, verse-addressing,
In welcome routine’s resolution.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #NaPoWriMo2025
April 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
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
Oft-stable reactant’s chem-cleaver.
The process provides
Alcohol and halide:
Two products formed out of the ether.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms
April 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
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
Begins with bond-breaking notation.
Ensuing, next steps
Allow varied prospects.
(Some cases, polymerizations.)
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms #RadicalChemistry
April 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A radical initiation
Begins with bond-breaking notation.
Ensuing, next steps
Allow varied prospects.
(Some cases, polymerizations.)
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms #RadicalChemistry
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
Last emails, announcements, remindings.
Spring weather enlivens;
Exams on horizon:
The path towards term’s end now is winding.
#NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday #FinalsWeek
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
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
Historical soap generation:
Now, path hydrolyzing
Is ester-incising
Through basic-solution causation.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms
April 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The route deemed saponification,
Historical soap generation:
Now, path hydrolyzing
Is ester-incising
Through basic-solution causation.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms
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
chemphasis.com/2021/03/30/s...
Rosalind Franklin:
Her crystallographic skills,
Insights display;
Her expertise, honed
In X-ray diffraction:
Unwinds major mystery,
Reveals DNA.
#NaPoWriMo #DNADay #RosalindFranklin
chemphasis.com/2021/03/30/s...
April 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Brilliantly, diligently,
Rosalind Franklin:
Her crystallographic skills,
Insights display;
Her expertise, honed
In X-ray diffraction:
Unwinds major mystery,
Reveals DNA.
#NaPoWriMo #DNADay #RosalindFranklin
chemphasis.com/2021/03/30/s...
Rosalind Franklin:
Her crystallographic skills,
Insights display;
Her expertise, honed
In X-ray diffraction:
Unwinds major mystery,
Reveals DNA.
#NaPoWriMo #DNADay #RosalindFranklin
chemphasis.com/2021/03/30/s...
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
Of day to celebrate the leaves!
On morrow, Arbor Day awaits,
The verse-defying plants to fête.
#NaPoWriMo #EarthWeek #ArborDayEve #JoyceKilmer
April 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
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
Five acts and a plot galvanizing.
The world’s for the staging,
With narratives paging
Through dramas’ iambic feet, rising.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #HappyBirthday #Shakespeare
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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
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
Of science’s close-paid attention:
See patterns emerging
From threads’ new-converging,
Revealing enriching dimensions.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #EarthDay #Observation
#RobinWallKimmerer
April 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
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 topical, yearly summation
With views interfacial.
This April’s theme: glacial,
In spring season’s chem-celebration!
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek
#CCEW #Sustainability #Glaciers
April 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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 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
In tree-set melodic crescendo;
The view, reminiscent
Of project long-distant,
Past print in a type of cyano.
#NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday
April 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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
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
Consider potassium,
Alkaline nature seen
Back in the day.
Saga through history:
Named after potash;
The Latin form, “kalium”;
Symbol is K.
#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab
April 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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
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
Two isomers’ key descriptivities.
With “parts being equal,”
Second structure’s a sequel
To first, in atomic vicinities.
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
April 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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
“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
April 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
“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
Ideas of odysseys, conjuring.
Stars: fixed in the sky,
But some objects move by--
The planets, so deemed for their “wandering.”
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
April 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
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
To everyday vision, invisible,
The atom in logic
Most etymologic
Takes name from the Greek: “indivisible.”
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab
April 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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
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
Sweeping natures:
Learn AND speak
The nomenclatures!
Some, acknowledged;
Many, hid;
Closer reads can
Build a bridge.
#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab #IsaacAsimov
April 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Intro classes’
Sweeping natures:
Learn AND speak
The nomenclatures!
Some, acknowledged;
Many, hid;
Closer reads can
Build a bridge.
#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab #IsaacAsimov
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
Scrap paper as palette now seeming.
The lim’rick, non-thwartive:
A format supportive
In April’s routine, still-esteeming.
#NaPoWriMo #NearHalfwayPoint
#LimerickSunday #WritingCommunity
April 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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
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
Adventures, perplexed and complex:
A dawnzer’s lee light,
Creativity’s flights,
And keen interest in what happens next!
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks
#NationalLibraryWeek
#BeverlyCleary #RamonaQuimby
April 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
Adventures, perplexed and complex:
A dawnzer’s lee light,
Creativity’s flights,
And keen interest in what happens next!
#NaPoWriMo #Limericks
#NationalLibraryWeek
#BeverlyCleary #RamonaQuimby