Einsteinium from
flying through
mushroom clouds
Janet Kuypers
11/29/21 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #99, Einsteinium (Es)
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From 1952 U.S. H-bomb tests at the Marshall Islands,
fighter pilots flew F-84 Thunderjets into
mushroom clouds to get atoms from nuclear explosions.
Glenn Seaborg, at Berkeley labs, found 200 atoms
of what would be element 99 —
once declassified, they later named it Einsteinium.
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