Scientific doggerel: curies to becquerels
May. 20th, 2007 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylHave you ever been caught out watching a lame TV show because you can't quite remember how to convert from curies to becquerels? Well, here's a mnemonic, dredged up from a radio-chemistry course I did years ago, that might help:
The dropping of the former curie
Put scientists into a fury.
Now they must use the becquerel,
Which few of them can even spell.
But one becquerel in Minsk or Newry
Is twenty seven pico curie.
Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe I'm wrong about the conversion. I took the course a long time ago and it's not like I've done any radio-chemistry — or even much in the way of hard science — since then. If only I wasn't too lazy to check my details. Ho hum...
The dropping of the former curie
Put scientists into a fury.
Now they must use the becquerel,
Which few of them can even spell.
But one becquerel in Minsk or Newry
Is twenty seven pico curie.
Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe I'm wrong about the conversion. I took the course a long time ago and it's not like I've done any radio-chemistry — or even much in the way of hard science — since then. If only I wasn't too lazy to check my details. Ho hum...
