Saturday, September 08, 2007

Chemistry Haiku

1
Dalton knew atoms.
Reactions conserve mass.
Proportions won't change.

2
Charged particles ran.
Thomson, Curie, Rutherford.
Nucleus is dense.

3
Atoms are so small.
Different numbers of neutrons:
They make isotopes.

4
AMU, a unit.
Averages of isotopes:
The atomic weight.

5
Repeats in the rows,
The Periodic Table.
Some metal, some not.

6
Well, oxygen is
A molecular compound.
O2: formula.

7
Atoms gain and lose
Electrons to form many
Ionic compounds.

8
Compounds have strange names.
Ium, ide, ate, ite, ic, ous,
are all at the end.

9
Carbon will be found
In all organic compounds.
They are very strange.

2 comments:

Cavalcadeofcats said...

Excellent! I think I like #6 the most. (This is about chapter two of our chem textbook, for those not in "the know."

Kelsey said...

8 is my favourite!