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1. "It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune."
The Elements Song is to the tune of a song from what Gilbert and Sullivan light opera?
2. "There's antimony, arsenic, _______, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and _______ and rhenium;"
Clue (blank 1): A lightweight metal often used in aircraft.
Clue (blank 2): This composes most of our atmosphere.
3. "And nickel, neodynium, neptunium, germanium,
And ______, americium, ruthenium, ______;"
Clue (blank 1): If you add carbon to this, it becomes steel.
Clue (blank 2): A radioactive metal used in certain types of weapons.
4. "Europium, zirconium, _______, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium;
And _______, protactinium, and indium and gallium, (gasp)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium!"
Clue (blank 1): This element is named after the Roman name for Paris.
Clue (blank 2): The Latin name for this element was aurum. It has 18 isotopes.
5. "There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, _______, iridium;
And strontium and silicon and _______ and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium!"
Clue (blank 1): It was named after a queen of Thebes in mythology.
Clue (blank 2): It is often used in dental procedures.
6. "Isn't that interesting? I knew you would. I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz next period."
"There's holmium and helium and hafnium and _______,
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and _______;
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium."
Both blanks are named after a city in Sweden. In all, there are four elements named after this city. What is it?
7. "And _______, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, _______, titanium, tellurium, (gasp)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium!"
Clue (blank 1): The Roman Empire used this element for plumbing.
Clue (blank 2): This element was the first to be artificially produced.
8. "There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, _______;
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium;
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium!"
9. "These are the only ones of which the news has come to (a college)...
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered!"
This college is known as one of the best colleges in the world, and is the oldest in the United States.
10. Many elements were discovered recently and are not included in the song. Which of these is not a real element?
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