Curium’s radioactive  
                          glitter
Janet Kuypers 
11/30/21 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem 
for element #96, Curium (Cm) 
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Berkeley physicist Al Ghiorso, known to bat around 
radioactively-filled tennis balls, once overloaded 
a particle accelerator with helium bombarding 
a Curium filter, swelling the Curium filter ‘til it popped 
like a balloon of radioactive glitter. He ducked, 
and all were evacuated. 
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