The Elements (song) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
\'"The Elements"' (
1959) is a song by
Tom Lehrer that recites the names of all the
chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102,
nobelium. It can be found as a track on
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer. The song is sung to the tune of
Sir Arthur Sullivan's "
Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from
The Pirates of Penzance.
- The song begins:
- There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
- And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
- ''And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium...
- And ends:
- ...These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
- And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered. (pronounced discah-vard)
Indeed, since that time, 11 more have been
discovered, and 8 of those have been named. Those 8 are
lawrencium,
rutherfordium,
dubnium,
seaborgium,
bohrium,
hassium,
meitnerium, and
darmstadtium.
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