poem “Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence”, a Twitter-length Periodic Table poem about the element #104, Rutherfordium (Rf) about how Rutherfordium, during the transfermium wars, the United States and the Soviet Union were trying to win the most element discoveries, but element 104, they argued over the name with - the U.S. wanted it for Ernest Rutherford, the king of nuclear science, and the Soviets wanted it named for Igor Kurchatov, their leader of Russian nukes, but the ironic thing is that people are fighting each other for scientific immortality with these discoveries, for finding elements that so quickly and immediately blinked out of existence, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Rhenium: the little element that could”, “Osmium when capitalism prevails”, “Iridium blankets the earth”, “Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer”, “Francium, of the feline persuasion”, “Radium’s Faint Light”, “Actinium & the next-gen for cancer”, “Protactinium, and voilà... rocks?”, “Curium’s radioactive glitter”, “Berkelium can recycle radioactivity”, “Californium’s a double-edged sword”, “Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, “Nobelium is fought for in transfermium wars”, “Nobelium: war or peace”, “Lawrencium: were we wrong?”, “Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Roentgenium, too scarce to waste”, “Copernicium makes the worlds go ‘round”, “Flerovium, doubly magic?”, “Livermorium, vanishing in our grasp”, and “Tennessine is what I get...” (+ showing the images that accompany poems) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Rutherfordium, blinked
out of existence
Janet Kuypers
12/3/21 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #104, Rutherfordium (Rf)
#janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
The U.S. & Soviets battled in transfermium wars,
even to name periodic table elements. For 104,
the U.S. said, Ernest Rutherford & nuclear science;
Soviets said, Igor Kurchatov & Russian nukes.
It’s ironic they fought to win, by discovering
what quickly blinked out of existence.

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