Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#iamwriting #narrativepoetry #Booksky Why do I write?mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comFrozen in TimeWaiting... 060
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#chemsky #chemistry #atomcity #iteachchemistry Watch group 3A poke holes in our precious theories.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comChange is AfootMother Nature puts her foot down. 000
Reposted by Paula RossiBreezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 30/09/2026 “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” -A.A. Milne I don't like it when someone I like on here just disappears, so I want to tell you my father is dying so I'm omw to California. I don't know how long I'll be gone. At least a week. take care of yourselves💜 12638737
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#chemsky #chemistry #atomcity #iteachchemistry Boron is one cagey element.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comThe Twilight ZoneChapter 11: Enter our first metalloid. 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#iamwriting #shortfiction! #booksky Candles vs. fluorescent lights.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comTwo FuneralsOne daughter 090
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#chemsky #chemistry #atomcity #iteachchemistry The ugly truth about mercury.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comThe Transition MetalsAn unruly bunch 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#iamwriting #poetry! #booksky Cotton castles dominate the sky, white heat, gives way to wonder. Robert Balog/Pixabay 070
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#Atomcity #Chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry No one said it would be easy...mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comLeave No Stone UnturnedLooking East across Atom City 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#IAMWRITING #POETRY? #BOOKSKY We never forget our old dogs...mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comLiving in the MomentFrom my personal archives 050
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments The weatherman builds a world. 1895 – Engraving of a painting of John Dalton Wikimedia PD 120
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry via #atomcity The playing field shifts.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comIn Mother Nature's EyesEven at double the $, electron 2 is worth it. 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry RAO tilts the table by a factor of three – was this enough to jumpstart life?mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comLife continues to evolve on an inhospitable planet.Arc III of III: The Machine 030
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Keep it simple. Frauke Riether/Pixabay 130
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026#atomcity #chemsky #chemistry Beryllium stands sentry at the northern border.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comTwo: The magic number for the metals of Group 2AA less tolerant bunch of elements. 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Homochirality: if you want life, gotta have this.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comLife Continues to Evolve On an Inhospitable Planet.Arc II of III: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 22/08/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments One frame for each atom. By Jaghrongle - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 150
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 19/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #atomcity #iteachchemistry Hydrogen (H) crashes the 1A gate.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comA Short Stop in the UKKeeping the lights on. 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 16/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Small molecules and mud puddles.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comLife evolves on an inhospitable planet.Arc I of III: Early Earth, Landscape 021
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 15/08/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Weight is relative. Th G /Pixabay 180
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 12/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #atomcity #iteachchemistry Cesium is a hot head – pops off with an electron at the slightest provocation.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comHard CurrencyIf you want a cation, expect to pay the going rate. 020
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026#iamwriting #memoir When energy was boundless.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comDayshift/NightshiftLong ago and far away. 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 08/08/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Elements persist. Lavoisier perishes. Mailme6/Pixabay 150
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 05/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry A close call with Francium.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comOur Trek Begins in Metal TerritoryIt's time to meet our first group of elements: Column 1A 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 03/08/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchem Was the ancient alchemist a master of the black arts?mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comThe AlchemistsOne foot in magic, the other finding solid ground. 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 01/08/2026 #paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Reason allows room for wonder. Dirk Röpert/Pixabay 040
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 29/07/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Even Mother Nature's pockets are only so deep.open.substack.comItineraryAnd the cost of doing business in Atom City 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 25/07/2026 #paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Mass will balance. Schorsch/Pixabay 050
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 22/07/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Mother Nature makes the rules here. Once within the walls of the city, we will be entirely at her mercy.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comAtom CityWhat we know and what we want to know. 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026#chemsky #chemistry 🧪 Move over C60, there’s a new icosahedron in town. And B80 is as just as symmetrical as you are.chemistryworld.comBoron equivalent of buckminsterfullerene finally observed after decades of researchCareful control of cluster cooling conditions enables resolution of long-sought photoelectron spectrum, but DFT confirmation remains elusive 062
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026#iamwriting #nonfiction #booksky When parents were adversaries.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comMy brother tells me I’m his favorite sister.I gently remind him I’m his only one. 070
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 18/07/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments The form crumbles. Residue remains. Pete Linforth/Pixabay 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Imagine the periodic table as a map of an ancient metropolis, a peculiar land inhabited by strange and exotic creatures. We’ll call it… Atom City.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comStrangers in A Strange LandCome on in! 131
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 13/07/2026#iamreading #Booksky #ecology From Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species In so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe struggle between the individuals … which subsist on the same kind of food.’ 130
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 12/07/2026#iamwriting #booksky A tiny story about a child and her mother. My parents had been out for the evening. I woke up when they came home. I couldn’t have been more than three years old because I was still sharing a bedroom with my older brother and the twins, one year younger than me. 130
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 11/07/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Oxygen vanishes into the ethiops. eluxirphoto/Pixabay 1101
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026 #haiku #poetry #ecology Steady, metronomic cheeps Not yet bright warbling song 5:00 AM again. 000
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 08/07/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Anxious to share their 60 carbon cage with the rest of the world, the principals struggled to devise a name that would be considered ‘proper’. They failed.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comArchitecture DominatesThe Naming Controversy 020
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Flatlander no more — the periodic table reveals its third dimension. Electronic geometry mirrors elemental identity. 🧪chemistryworld.comSuperatoms offer new dimension to materials chemistry paletteCould atomically precise nanoclusters mimic the chemistry of particular atoms without their toxic or cost drawbacks? James Mitchell Crow reports on the emerging third dimension of the periodic table 052
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 06/07/2026#CHEMSKY #CHEMISTRY #ITEACHCHEMISTRY The Ghost Becomes a Molecule. In 1990, physicists Donald Huffman and Wolfgang Krätschmer produced gram-sized quantities of C60. Plenty for structural determinations, which vindicated Curl, Kroto and Smalley. 100
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The ancient Greeks puzzled over how the universe was quilted together – The debate continues today. #chemistry #chemsky #iamwritingmapofthechemicalworld.substack.comAristotle v. the AtomistsImage by Javiermirapeidro for Pixabay 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 04/07/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments To master danger is advantage. yeison bueno / pixbay 1122
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 03/07/2026#CHEMSKY #CHEMISTRY The discovery of buckminsterfullerene was not a fait accompli once Smalley built a 60 carbon cage out of cardboard. The next five years were dominated by disputes and harsh criticism of the discoverers. 100
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 01/07/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Do you remember the movie 'Slum Dog Millionaire'? Here's another one of those unusual constellations of events. 100
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Reading this article, I felt like a fly on the wall, watching Humphrey Davy interact with other scientists in his day. It seems humility was not exactly his cup of tea. 🧪doi.orgHumphry Davy: a study in narcissism?Abstract. Drawing on Jan Golinski's analysis of Humphry Davy's adoption of a variety of social roles, this paper seeks to ground Davy's social interactions 010
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 29/06/2026#chemsky #chemistry #ecology So often, the future destroys the past. But not this time.substack.comPaula Rossi (@periodicmusings)Sanctuary for an ancient species. Cycads shared this black orb with the dinosaurs, surviving that mass extinction and the four others that followed. By changing very little. While the world chang... 021
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 28/06/2026#iamwriting #booksky #chemsky The notion that creation is quilted together from fundamental pieces of matter is one that surfaced with the dawn of human intellect. Kohji Asakawa/ Pixabay 1253
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 27/06/2026#paintwithwords #iamwriting #chemistry fragments Order quarrels with chaos. Viviane M/ Pixabay 240
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 26/06/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Meet Bruce Hauman. Not for him was toiling away in an uninspiring job just to pay the mortgage. And he did something about it. He designed, constructed and dwelt within his own 209 square foot geodome in the mid-2000s.rigsomelight.comRig Some Light 100
Paula Rossi @elementalmusings.bsky.social · 24/06/2026#chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry Geometry intersects genius.mapofthechemicalworld.substack.comThe VisionaryA rather obscure poet, inventor and self-taught architect 010
