Curium’s radioactive
glitter
Janet Kuypers
11/30/21 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #96, Curium (Cm)
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Berkeley physicist Al Ghiorso, known to bat around
radioactively-filled tennis balls, once overloaded
a particle accelerator with helium bombarding
a Curium filter, swelling the Curium filter ‘til it popped
like a balloon of radioactive glitter. He ducked,
and all were evacuated.
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