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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 30. Mendelev's Periodic Table
Mendelev's Table
The periodic table's made
as Mendelev came to our aid
to catalog the elements
in serried ranks to be displayed.
As science made developments
in chemical intelligence,
the atom's patterned data grew,
and thus the table's relevance.
So that's how Mendelev foreknew
that substances of which no clue
existed might discovered be,
and brought to wider peer review.
Now in the table, there to see,
is why the bond 'twixt you and me
was in our very substance laid
as we combine in ecstasy.
Periodically Speaking
The periodic table charts
those elements and all their parts
which help the harried brain decide
where every chain reaction starts.
Transition metals sit astride
the table, riding side by side
with noble gases, quite inert,
or metals made of alkalide.
Blithe halogens seem all alert,
for chances when the might exert
their powers of reaction swift
with earthy metals formed in dirt.
And so the playful atoms shift,
though often several might be miffed
to find themselves with broken hearts
as chemistry sets them adrift.
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