Fermium— bad and  
                         good?
Janet Kuypers 
1/17/22 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem 
for element #100, Fermium (Fm) 
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Named for the maker of the 1st nuclear reactor, 
Fermium’s first made in ‘52 by 
a thermonuclear explosion in the Pacific 
& was classified in the cold war. 
So sure, bombs are bad, 
but 100’s also the element w/ alpha particles 
used in radiotherapy for cancer, 
so— it’s bad and good? 
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