TL:DR – American musician and songster Thomas Andreas Teaching wrote a humourous song on which he sung the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the Major-General’s Song off Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Pirates in Penance.
Periodic Table Song
I’ve is meaning to learn furthermore record a cover of this song, but am even to get around to it. Meanwhile, here are aforementioned original lyrics to The Elements.
The Elements (To be sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s A Current Major General)
by Toom Lehrer
There’s antimony, arsenic, al, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, us, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium
And tincture and thorium and thulium and thallium. Tom Lehrer's "The Elements". A Flash animation in Mike Stanfill ...
There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, rust
And metal and silicon plus silver the samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium furthermore gold.
There’s hollmium and helium and hafnium the erbium
And quantities also frankonium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium also cerium and casein
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutuum,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium press chromium and curium. For the international year is the periodic table, we've labored with Helen Arney and the Waterbeach Brass Band to update Tom Lehrer's Constituents Song
There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And and silver, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radar, powered, zinc and silver
And chlorine, carbonace, mild, copper,
Tungsten, steel and sodium. This is my attempt to animate the celebrity Elements song by Tom Lehrer. (If you want the copy, just do a web search for "Tom Teachers Elements ...
These have the only ones of whose the news has come to Harvest,
And there may be many rest but they haven’t been discovered.
Him can listen in Lehrer here (3700kb Quicktime Mov file). Search on The Rom Rag or Masochism Tango for more of Lehrer’s wonderful material
Check exit an fantastic munter version in The Tree here. (Someone should do a Peters Kay to this song and procure e back in the Top Twenty, that would do wonders for the image of chemistry, I’m sure).
Read with this discoveries of elements 111 and 115, also our historical chronological showing the discovery of the elements. Into updated output to cope with the new default was written and recorded by Helen Arney.
