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There's antimony arsenic, aluminum, selenium, and hydrogen and

hydrogen and reneum, and nickel neodymium, neptunium, germanium, and iron, amoreseum, ruthenium, uranium, uropenium, zirconium, rutisium, vanadium, and lanthanium, and acetine and radium, and gold inptectinium and indium and gallium, and iodinean, and thorium, and thulium and thallium.

There's itrium,

aturbium, actinium, rubidium,

boron gadolinium,

nio. and iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium there's itrium aturbium actidium rubidium and borne gadolinium niobium iridium

and strontium and silicon and silver and samarium and bislethrominium lithium

beryllium and berym and baryam and barium

there we go we played it the last last time when David came into the studio,

The Element Song by Tom Lehrer,

a great musician, lyricist who died last week at 97.

Nothing, you'd 600 years left in them, as David said.

But at 97 and the Element song,

was that your party piece, Professor?

That's the way every school kid in America learns the elements.

It is.

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