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[Tom Lehrer] ♪ 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 Harvard, ♪
♪ And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered. ♪
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