Chem-E-Wocky (Were Lewis Carroll a Chemical Engineer)
‘Twas ambient near the propane stove
(Use Kelvin, never centigrade)
All flimsy were the ratios
The samples poorly weighed.
Beware the Navier Stokes if done
While using spherical coordinates.
Disdain to extrapolate, and shun
Logs of negatives.
Taking Perry’s with both hands
He sought fugacity to plot
‘Til resting in a centrifuge
He separated thought
While opening his heart to the second law
The Geankoplis, with heat exchange
Came crashing through the study lounge
And bubbled in phase change
Egads! Egads! It’s copper clad!
Conducting heat to dissipate.
He estimated magnitude;
It returned to steady state.
Hast thou diffused the molecules?
Those mass eddies in transient state.
And thus endured the plug flow blues?
It’s time to celebrate.
John Stuhmer