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RoentgeniumJanet Kuypersfrom the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#111, Rg) 7/2/13 Being in just the right place at just the right time is what getting what you want is all about. # Thirteen nuclear researchers bombarded Bismuth two oh nine with Nickel sixty four ions to make the Nickel penetrate the Bismuth nucleus, so they’d come together to make a bigger atom. So the Nickel had to go fast enough to penetrate the Bismuth nuclei (not too fast, but not too slow), and still, you’d lose a lot of atoms to space. Enough experiments, enough times, created more atoms of element one one one. They looked for so long, and no one knows for sure what Roentgenium looks like, so the researchers started predicting it’s properties because it has such a short half life. # And on the anniversary of when this all came together in just the right way, at just the right time, that’s when John Hinckley, after stalking the rock star and watching his habits, that’s when he walked from the sidewalk and shot John Lennon. Because as I said, you have to be in just the right place at just the right time to make everything come together, don’t you. # But if we got enough of one one one, we’d love this precious metal — even if only for a short while. |
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