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Occasional Poetry - 44. Geometric Construction and Avogadro
i>The subject matter may be esoteric, or it may bring back bad memories of school science and math classes. I apologize if these bring back the smell of chemistry lab, or the terror of your Geometry instructor. In this case, the errors are all mine.
Geometric Construction
I have construction on my mind,
the T-square and a pencil kind;
I want a man who has that skill -
he's proven rather hard to find.
I wish that he would, with his quill
use perpendiculars to thrill
a point of intersection drawn
upon my plane, beneath my hill.
He'll circumscribe me in the dawn,
my neck, he'll leave his marks thereon,
and he my angle would bisect,
though that conclusion be foregone.
In parallel we'll lie, subject
to Euclid's laws, none else respect;
our limbs transverse, so well aligned -
I think I've found an architect.
Avogadro
Now Avogadro had a mole
he used one day to fill a hole
in space with atoms of a gas,
a concept he found rather droll.
A mole like this does not, alas,
have standard volume, made of brass;
it's just how many molecules
twelve grams of carbon can amass.
From chemistry's more sacred rules,
a mole of carbon's kilojoules
of energy can be divined,
as long as we have got the tools.
But Avogadro still was blind
to measures of the heart and mind;
the size of love within my soul
for you, his mole will never find.
i>Avogadro's number, 6.02 x 10^23, is the number of atoms or elementary particles in twelve grams of carbon-12. Or, at least, that's the Wiki definition. You can find out more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit)
Even if it stirs your memories of high school, you can rant or respond to these as you wish.
Even if it stirs your memories of high school, you can rant or respond to these as you wish.
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