Elemental haiku

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Chlorine

Low road or high road?
World War I. Gas in trenches.
Or salt shared, tears shed.

A haiku for every element on the periodic table up to atomic weight 103, and also one for the as-yet-unsynthesised ununennium, I especially like magnesium’s.