Polymer Limericks

This page dedicated to Professor Walter Stockmayer, Dartmouth University

From Webster's Dictionary: "1....county in Ireland, in Munster province...its county seat, pop. 56,000.....a nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, now often bawdy, usually with the rhyme scheme aabba, the first, second and fifth lines having three stresses..."

• There once was a theorist from France
• Who studied how molecules dance.
• "They're like snakes," he observed,
• "as they follow a curve,
• "the large ones can hardly advance."

Western coral snake: like a polymer?

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