The element song
The location of the elements in the periodic table.
Lyrics:
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium, (gasp)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (gasp)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hahvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discahvered.
Source: members.aol.com/quentncree/leh er/elements.htm
Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: luaker
Length: 01:26
Rating: 4.8794174
Views: 3219831
Tags: tom lehrer element song periodic table
Video Comments
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bananapin9 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i am the very model of a modern major general...sound familiar?!
iphonehacker87 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i hope not because i can hardly pronounce them and i alredy memorized the whole song so i dont want to have to re-memorize it
Escuerd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thanks for the number. That's absolutely right, which is why I specified the 111 that have been named.
112 through 118 have names like ununbium, ununtrium, ununquadrium, etc. They'll almost certainly be replaced with more euphonious sounding names at some point. Maybe they can eventually be appended to the song? Haha
iphonehacker87 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
actually theres 118
Escuerd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The song was made in 1959 and included only 102 elements. Today we have 111 with official names:
lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium, darmstadtium, roentgenium.
Then there are a few others with names deruved from their atomic numbers like ununbium, and ununtrium.
bbjjkl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yeh real genius, i love the way at the end it shows which ones haven't been discovered
Does anyone know when this song was discovered, please reply!!
serfco (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Most countries spell aluminium with an i before -um. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.
(WIKIPEDIA - or WikipAedia!!)
PANiCitsGRACE (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I am The Very Model of a Modern Major General.
is that the answer to the question you asked? :)
shangpush (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I think I recognize Gilbert and Sullivan--but could someone please tell me the name of the music on which this cleverness is based?
BlackDeath17123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
naval criminal investigation service like csi just more humor. It is sweet! |
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