Fermium— bad and
good?
Janet Kuypers
1/17/22 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #100, Fermium (Fm)
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Named for the maker of the 1st nuclear reactor,
Fermium’s first made in ‘52 by
a thermonuclear explosion in the Pacific
& was classified in the cold war.
So sure, bombs are bad,
but 100’s also the element w/ alpha particles
used in radiotherapy for cancer,
so— it’s bad and good?
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