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New Song 11/28/05 ~ The Atoms Family Song #16 on the Chemistry Song List
Newest Song 12/05/05 ~ The Abandoned Lab Song IX on the Adv. Chem. Song List
0. The Goggle Song.
1. The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town
2. I'm dreaming of a white precipitate
3. Silent labs
4. Deck the labs
5a. The Twelve Days of Chemistry
5b. The Twelve Days of Christmas (Chemistry Style - New Version)
6. Test tubes bubbling
7. O little melting particle
8. We wish you a happy halogen
9. Chemistry wonderland
10. I saw teacher kissing Santa Chlorine
11. O come all ye gases
12. We three students of chemistry are...
13. Iron the Red Atom Molecule
14. Lab reports
15. Silver nitrate
16. The Atoms Family
And from the 211 or Adv. Chemistry Song Book we have these melodic tunes...
I. Grignard the Beautiful
II. Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner
III. Oh My Ketone
IV. The Adol Reaction
V. Oh, You Butadiene
VI. The Song Of Thermodynamics by the Sixities MSU group, "The Oettler Beverage Company."
VII. The Bohemian Atom by Yevgeny Brudno May 2001
VIII. The Element Song by Leher
IX. The Abandoned Lab by Jennifer Bedell Dec 2005
0. 9/2/04 ~ The Goggle Song.
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Sung to Tune of I'm a Little Tea Pot
I'm a little Chemist Short and Stout
(Point TO GOGGLES)
1. The Chemistry Teacher's Coming to Town
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You better not weigh
You better not heat
You better not react
I'm telling you now
The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town.
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He's collecting data
He's checking it twice
He's gonna find out
The heat of melting ice
The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town.
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He sees you when you're decanting
He knows when you titrate
He knows when you are safe or not
So wear goggles for goodness sake.
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Oh, you better not filter
And drink your filtrate
You better not be careless and spill your precipitate.
The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town.
2. I'm Dreaming of a White Precipitate
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I'm dreaming of a white precipitate
just like the ones I used to make
Where the colors are vivid
and the chemist is livid
to see impurities in the snow.
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I'm dreaming of a white precipitate
with every chemistry test I write
May your equations be balanced and right
and may all your reactions be bright.
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3. Silent Labs
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Silent labs, difficult labs
All with math, all with graphs
Observations of colors and smells
Calculations and graph curves like bells
Memories of tests that have past
Oh - - how long will chemistry last?
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Silent labs, difficult labs
All with math, all with graphs
Lots of equations that need balancing
Gas pressure problems that make my head ring
Santa Chlorine's on his way
Oh - - Please Santa bring me an 'A'.
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4. Deck the Labs
Deck the labs with rubber tubing
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Use your funnel and your filter
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Don we now our goggles and aprons
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Before we go to our lab stations
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
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Fill the beakers with solutions
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Mix solutions for reactions
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Watch we now for observations
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
So we can collect our data
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
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5a. The Twelve Days of Chemistry (version I)
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On the first day of chemistry
My teacher gave to me
A candle from Chem Study.
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(second day) two asbestos pads
(third day) three little beakers
(fourth day) four work sheets
(fifth day) five golden moles
(sixth day) six flaming test tubes
(seventh day) seven unknown samples
(eighth day) eight homework problems
(ninth day) nine grams of salt
(tenth day) a ten page test
(eleventh day) eleven molecules
(twelfth day) a twleve point quiz
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Twelve Days of Chemistry (Version II) Written Dec. 2001
On the first day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, write down the safety
rules.
On the second day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, hydrogen is a gas
and write down the Safety rules.
On the third day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, acids are harmful,
hydrogen is a gas and write down the Safety rules.
On the fourth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, wear safety glasses,
acids are harmful, hydrogen is a gas, and write down the safety rules.
On the fifth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, get off the desks,
wear safety glasses, acids are harmful, hydrogen is a gas, and write down
the safety rules.
On the sixth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, don't blow up the
lab, get off the desks, wear safety glasses, acids are harmful, hydrogen is
a gas, and write down the safety rules.
On the seventh day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, is everyone on time,
don't blow up the lab, get off the desks, wear safety glasses, acids are harmful,
hydrogen is a gas, and write down the safety rules.
On the eighth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, don't touch the equipment,
is everyone on time, don't blow up the lab, get off the desks, wear safety
glasses, acids are harmful, hydrogen is a gas, and write down the safety rules.
On the ninth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, don't throw the glassware,
don't touch the equipment, is everyone on time, don't blow up the lab, get
off the desks, wear safety glasses, acids are harmful, hydrogen is a gas,
and write down the safety rules.
On the tenth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, put down the matches,
don't throw the glassware, don't touch the equipment, is everyone on time,
don't blow up the lab, get off the desks, wear safety glasses, acids are harmful,
hydrogen is a gas, and write down the safety rules.
On the eleventh day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, shut off the gas,
put down the matches, don't throw the glassware, don't touch the equipment,
is everyone on time, don't blow up the lab, get off the desks, wear safety
glasses, acids are harmful, hydrogen is a gas, and write down the safety rules.
On the twelfth day of chemistry, my teacher said to me, clean up the classroom,
shut off the gas, put down the matches, don't throw the glassware, don't touch
the equipment, is everyone on time, don't blow up the lab, get off the desks,
wear safety glasses, acids are harmful, hydrogen is a gas, and write down
the safety rules.
Sing to the tune of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Lyrics developed by Mary Giudice. Dec. 2001
6. Test Tubes Bubbling
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(Sung to the tune of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Test tubes bubbling in a water bath
Strong smells nipping at ypur nose.
Tiny molecules with their atoms all aglow
Will find it hard to be inert tonight.
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They know that Chlorine's on its way
He's loaded lots of little electrons on his sleigh
And every student's slide rule is on the sly
To see if the teacher really can multiply.
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And so I offer you this simple phrase
To chemistry students in this room
Although it's been said many times, many ways
Merry molecules to you.
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7. O Little Melting Particle
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(Sung to the tune of O Little Town of Bethlehem)
Para Dichloro Benzene
how do you melt so well?
The plateau of your cooling curve
is really something swell.
We think the heat of fusion
of water is so nice
Give up fourteen hundred cals per mole
and what you get is ice.
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8. We Wish You a Happy Halogen
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(Sung to We Wish You a Merry Christmas.)
We wish you a happy halogen
We wish you a happy halogen
We wish you a happy halogen
To react with a metal.
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Good acid we bring
to you and your base.
We wish you a merry molecule
and a happy halogen.
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9. Chemistry Wonderland
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Gases explode, are you listenin'
In your rest tube, silver glistens
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
Walking in a chemistry wonderland.
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Gone away, is the buoyancy
Here to stay, is the density
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
Walking in a chemistry wonderland.
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In the beaker we will make lead carbonate
and decide if what's left is nitrate
My partner asks "Do we measure it in moles or grams?"
and I'll say, "Does it matter in the end?"
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Later on, as we calculate
the amount, of our nitrate
We'll face unafraid, the precipitates that we made
walking in a chemistry wonderland.
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10. I Saw Teacher Kissing Santa Chlorine
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I saw teacher kissing Santa Chlorine
under the chemistree last night
They didn't sneak me down the periodic chart
to take a peek
At all the atoms reacting in their beakers;
it was neat.
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And I saw teacher kissing Santa Chlorine
under the chemistree so bright
Oh what a reaction there would have been
if the principal had walked in
With teacher kissing Santa Chlorine last night.
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11. O Come all ye Gases
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O Come all yea gases
diatomic wonders
O come yea, o come yea
calls Avogadro.
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O come yea in moles
6 x 10 to the 23rd
O molar mass and molecules
O volume, pressure and temperature
O molar volume of gases at S.T.P.
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12. We Three Students of Chemistry Are
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We three students of chemistry are
taking tests that we think are hard
Stoichiometry, volumes and densities
worrying all the time.
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O room of wonder
room of fright
Room of thermites
blinding light:
With your energies
please don't burn us
Help us get our labs all right.
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13. Iron the Red Atom Molecule
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(Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
There was Cobalt and Argon and Carbon and Fluorine
Silver and Boron and Neon and Bromine
But do you recall
the most famous element of all?
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Iron the red atom molecule
had a very shiny orbital
And if you ever saw him
You'd enjoy his magnetic glow
All of the other molecules
used to laugh and call him Ferrum
They never let poor Iron
join in any reaction games.
Then one inert Chemistry eve
Santa came to say
Iron with your orbital so bright
won't you catalyze the reaction tonight?
Then how the atoms reacted
and combined in twos and threes
Iron the red atom molecule
you'll go down in Chemistry!
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14. Lab Reports
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(Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)
Dashing through the lab
with a tan page lab report
Taking all those tests
and laughing at them all
Bells for fire drills ring
making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
a chemistry song tonight.
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Oh, lab report, lab reports,
reacting all the way
Oh what fun it is to study
for a chemistry test today, Hey!
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Chemistry test, chemistry test
isn't it a blast
Oh what fun it is to take
a chemistry test and pass
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15. Silver Nitrate
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(Sung to the tune of Silver Bells)
Silver nitrate, silver nitrate
it's chemistry time in the lab
Ding-a-ling, with a copper ring
soon it will be chemistry day.
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Take your nitrate, in solution
Add your copper with style
In the beaker there's a feeling of reactions
silver forming, blue solution
Bringing ooh's ah's and wows
now the data procesing begins.
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Get the mass, change to moles
what is the ratio with copper?
Write an equation, balance it
we're glad it's Chemistry Day.
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16. The Atoms Family by Kathleen Crawford.
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Here is a song to the tune of the Adams Family
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They are so small (snap, snap)
They're round like a ball (snap, snap)
They make up the air
They're everywhere
Can't see them at all
They're tiny and they're teeny
Much smaller than a weenie
They never can be seenie
The Atoms Family
(chorus)
Together they make masses
And liquid like molasses
And all the common gases
The Atoms Family
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Gleaned from the MESTA ListServe Nov. 18th 2005
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The lyrics were part of a article published in Science Scope magazine in 1994 entitled
"Introducing.... The Atoms Family".Ê This publication is the middle school magazine of
the National Science Teachers Association. Re-Published with permission, all authors may request
removal at anytime, all rights reserved by their respective authors, please request permission
Ê where possible in advance.
Kathleen Crawford
Science Hill High School
1509 John Exum Parkway
Johnson City, TN 37604
The Advanced Chemistry or Organic Chemistry Song List Begins Here
I. Oh Grignard, the Beautiful
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(Sung to the tune of America the Beautiful)
The carbonyl is polarized;
The carbon end is plus.
A nucleophile will thus attack
The carbon nucleus.
A Grignard yields an alcohol
Of types there are but three.
It forms a bond to correspond
From C to shining C.
A secondary's synthesis
Requires an aldehyde.
For tertiary, a carbanion
And ketone may collide.
And Grignards add formaldehyde
The product's primary
They stick like glue to CO2
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Join C to lonely C.
*Author unknown* Collected by Dr.Slime 1997
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II. Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner
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(to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
Take a ketone carbonyl and then react with hydrazine.
It forms a hydrazone, of course, and water leaves the scene.
An NH from the NH2, hydroxide will attack.
Resonance occurs and then the carbon grabs H back.
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Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner!
Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner!
Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner!
Reduce the carbonyl and then the side-chain now is plain.
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Hydroxide base is still present, it steals the last H plus.
Now add a little heat, the N2 leaves without a fuss.
The carbon gets a hydrogen producing an alkane.
Now the carbon chain is plain.
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Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner!
Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner!
Glory, Glory, It's Wolff-Kischner!
Reduce the carbonyl and then the side-chain now is plain.
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by Kristy Bruno, Val Stetts, Tracy Albrecht 6 May 1996 edited by Professor
Casteel from Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pa.
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III. Oh, My Ketone!
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(Sung to the tune of "Oh, My Darling Clementine")
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Oh, my ketone! Oh, my ketone!
And my primary amine.
You reacted, lost some water and
You formed a new imine.
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Now the lone pair on the N then
Bonds with carbonyl C.
Pi electrons go to O, a
Proton shifts fast as can be.
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Now the O is feeling greedy
Grabs an H from OH3.
Free electrons from the N then
Form a pi bond, water leaves.
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Now the N is protonated
And a plus charge can be seen.
So the water yanks the H off
And we've formed a new imine.
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Oh, my ketone! Oh, my ketone!
And my primary amine.
You reacted, lost some water and
You formed a new imine.
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by William Evans 6 May 1997.Source: Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pa.
IV. The Aldol Reaction
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(Sung to the tune of the Hokey-Pokey)
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You put a strong base in,
It takes the alpha-H out:
This forms an enolate.
That's what this carbonyl's about.
The enolate will resonate,
The charge is shared by O.
That's what aldol's about.
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The enolate attacks
Another carbonyl about.
A new bonds forms;
It's really neat without a doubt.
A beta-hydroxycarbonyl is the result.
That's what aldol's about.
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by Patrick Costello and Graig Garrett, 6 May 1996 edited by Dee Casteel
Source: Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pa.
V. Oh, You Butadiene.
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(Sung to the tune of Oh, You Beautiful Doll)
Oh, you butadiene, you great big butadiene
Times I love you, times I hate you
How, I'd love to brominate you
Oh, you butadiene, you great big butadiene
I would ozonize you, but I fear you'd break
If you polymerize, my heart will ache
Oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh you butadiene
(Your're double bonded) - < spoken with feeling>
Oh, you butadiene
(You're conjugated) - < spoken with feeling>
Oh, you butadiene
(Source: C. N. Peck Delta College Chemistry Dept. 1999)
VI.The Song of Thermodynamics
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(Sung to the Tune of The Battle Hymn Of The Republic.)
The Song Of Thermodynamics
They asked him on the final
If a mole of any gas
In a vessel with a membrane
Through which hydrogen could pass
Were compressed to half its volume
What the entropy would be
If two-thirds of delta sigma
Equals half of delta p.
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Chorus:
Glory, glory dear old thermo
repeat twice
I'll get you by and by.
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He said he guessed the entropy
Would have to equal 4
Unless the second law
Would bring it up a couple more.
It might have been near 7
If the thermostat were good
Or it might be down near zero
If once rightly understood.
Chorus:
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The professor read his paper
With a corrugated brow
For he knew he'd have to grade it
But he didn't quite know how.
Then a sudden inspiration
On his cerebellum smote
And he seized his trusty fountain pen
And this is what he wrote:
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Just as you have guessed the entropy
I'll have to guess your grade
But the second law won't bring it to
The mark you might have made
It might have been 100
If your guesses had been good
But I guess it must be zero
Since not rightly understood.
Chorus:
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(Source:Alice Collins unsolicited Internet Email she relates the following
historical reference..."The following came from Michigan State University
in the sixties and was written by a group calling themselves the Oettler Beverage
Company.") (Editors note: What beverage do you think provokes 60's college
students to songs about thermodynamics, hmmm, sounds like a research project
for Dr.Slime. )
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VII. The Phantom Atom Song
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The Phantom Atom Sung to Queens Bohemian Rhapsody
Written by Yevgeny (Eugene) Brudno
Logged May 4th 2001 upenn.edu
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Is this the Orgo?
Is this just Phantom Atom?
Drove by a catalyst
No escape from reaction here
Open the flask
Look into the crud and see
I'm just a Carbon, I need no Synthesis
Because I'm easy sub, Easy Bond
Alechemy without a wand
Anyway Keq goes, doesnt really matter to me,...to me
Mama!, Destroyed a base
put some acid hereupon
Protinated, Now its gone
Mama!, Reflux had begun
but now I've gone and throw it all away
Mama, oooh
Didn't mean to ruin it now
If I have not reacted on the Hot Plate
carry on, carry on, as if nothing really maters
Too Late, my time has come
electrons in Pi one (as in all bonding orbital)
a regular Hexagon
Goodbye everybody - I've got to bond
Gotta leave you all behind and face the MO's
Mama, oooh (anyway Keq goes)
I don't want redux
I sometimes wish I'd never been made at all.
I see a little IR Spectra of a carbon
Scarmouch, scarmouch will you do Diel Alder?-
Para nitrating - so deactivating me -
Carbonyl, Carbonyl
Carbonyl, Carbonyl
Carbonyl, Halogen - Nitronium -
but i'm just a carbon and nobody Birch's Me -
He's just a carbon from a poor aryl group -
spare him his life from this Benzyllicness -
Easy sub, easy bond-, will you let me bond -
Bismillah! We will not let you bond - let him bond
Bismillah! We will not let you bond - let him bond
We will not let you bond - let me bond
We will not let you bond - let me bond
No, no, no, no, no, no. no
Sigma Complex, Sigma Complex, Sigma Complex let me bond
The nucleophile has electrons put aside for me, for me, for me
So you think you can nitrate and deactivate
So you think you can withdraw and not conugate
Oh Benzene, Can't do to me benzene
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Ooooh Yeah, Ooh Yeah
nothing really Matters
Anyone can see
nothing really matters- nothing really matters to me.
Anyway Keq Goes
Yevgeny Brudno, Philadelphia, Pa. May 2001
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VIII. The ELEMENT song
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by: 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,
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,
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 discavard.
Submitted by Jay Shah Feb. 5th 2002
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IX. The Abandoned Lab Song ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I didn't write these songs, but I sure do enjoy them. Many thanks to the
authors many of which are unknown. If you have a favorite song why not share
it with the chemistry world at large, Biology songs if submitted will be installed
in a seperate list. Thanks to All. [hit the back button to go get out of this
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Tune: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Chemicals left out by a prof. retired
Strong fumes nipping at your nose
You'll be harrowed finding out they acquired
Things whose ID nobody knows
Everybody knows some water and some sodium
Help to make the cleanup bright
Tiny bottles that you hope aren't aglow
Will all be packed and out of sight
You've thought to chargeback, to make them pay
You've scolded lots of grads and staff
along the way
But still some faculty are gonna try
to see if they can get their labs to slip by
And so, I'm hoping this is only a phase
For labs that don't know what to do
Although it's been said
many times, many ways
Do thing safely! Clean your lab up!
They just don't take the cue!
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Submitted by Jennifer L. Bedell, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, DRS, Head, CSS
Division of Research Safety
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801-3070
www.drs.uiuc.edu/css
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