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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 17. Splintered Science
Diffusion
Diffusion helps the lowly cell
to feed itself and launder well
so many of its inmost parts
which students all find hard to spell.
So this is how nutrition starts
with microscopic a la cartes
just passing through the membrane wall
to fuel the mitochondric hearts.
It's concentration makes the call
if molecules will speed or crawl
across the permeable divide,
till equalized, their movements stall.
Tonight, when we lie side by side,
please concentrate, and in me hide,
that with our movements we might swell
and sense diffusion at flood tide.
Boyle's Law
No student slogs in mirthless toil
without the laws of Robert Boyle
infringing on his precious day,
his thoughts to muddy, churn and roil.
When gasses are contained some way,
the chemist heats them with dismay;
he knows that pressure is inverse
to volume in the pot of clay.
To cook a molecule's a curse,
for volume tries to grow, or worse,
it can't expand, so pressure's built,
with consequences none reverse.
It feels the same to hear your lilt,
and later, when beneath the quilt
with luscious heat you thrill and spoil,
so pressure's raised and I am spilt.
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