Ian said:
Has anyone got a mnemonic for the Periodic Table?
At school, it started 'Hail Henry. Libero! Bad conductors never offer
nuts' (lost it here), then 'Climbers are kind characters'.... (for Cl,
Ar K and Ca). Don't know any more.
Any offers?
Ian.
Harry, He Likes Beer, But Cup Not Over Flowing.
Nelly, Nancy, Meg, All Sing Part Songs Clearly,
Ar, Kate Can.
That's the first 20.
Then there's the Tom Lehrer song, "The Elements", not in order of atomic
number, but sung to G&S's "The Modern Major-General":
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, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
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.
Isn't that interesting? (Laughter.)
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz
next period.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous 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,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)
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 Ha'vard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discavared.
Cheers,
Gary B-)
