Canto xxiv presents the thieves, beginning with an elaborate simile and an ascent (instead of the usual downward motion). dante quote self-consciously celebrates his own poetic genius in describing the transformation of these sinners’ bodies. why are metamorphoses such a celebrated poetic topic (you might wish to research this question a bit)

periodic trends is an atom that gets larger as the number of electronic shells increase, the radius of atoms increases as you go down a certain group in the periodic table of elements. in general, the size of an atom will decrease as you move from left to right of a certain period.

metric time was an attempt to create a standard unit of time based off of 10, but it never took off an is not included in the metric system (si)