Francium, of the
feline persuasion
Janet Kuypers
11/29/21 (Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #87, Francium (Fr)
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French chemist Marguerite Perey
(a protégée of Marie Curie)
discovered element 87
& wanted to call it “catium”
for it’s strong attraction to cathodes.
Irène Joliot-Curie worried
the name catium
would be linked to house cats,
so French chemist Perey
settled on “Francium” instead.
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