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Gadolinium
You are in
just about
everything
the modern
world says
it needs: tvs,
microwaves,
compact discs,
optics, x-rays,
nuclear submarines
and MRIS. That is,
everything that
entertains us,
gives us cancer,
then diagnoses.
No wonder we
call you “Gd”.
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By nathan long |
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I think that I shall never see
An element rare in Earth as thee.
Your number six-four, your charge plus three,
In earthly rocks your ppm are few.
None wants an atom as incompatible as you,
But search the globe for you I yet do.
I look in mountain, in field, and in stream-
Ever searching, even in dream.
You're not what to others you seem.
You're my grail, my lost Shangri La,
Of the elements found between Lu and La.
I bow down before you, my king, my Ra. |
By Edward Lane |
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