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/lehrer/elements.htm

Duration : 0:1:26


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6 Responses to “The element song”

  1. bananapin9 Says:

    i am the very model …
    i am the very model of a modern major general…sound familiar?!

  2. iphonehacker87 Says:

    i hope not because …
    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

  3. Escuerd Says:

    Thanks for the …
    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

  4. iphonehacker87 Says:

    actually theres 118
    actually theres 118

  5. Escuerd Says:

    The song was made …
    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.

  6. bbjjkl Says:

    Yeh real genius, i …
    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!!

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