化学家的绕口令

2008.01.30

十几年前我刚到哥伦比亚大学化学系读博士时，我做TA的班上的一个学生有一天送给我一盒磁带。他说：我想你作为一个chemist应该会喜欢它。

我回去一听，是Tom Lehrer的The Elements Song（《化学元素之歌》），比相声演员的绕口令还有过之而无不及。如果不信你就自己对着下面的歌词跟着唱，看看跟不跟得上吧。

下面就是我在网上找到的这首有趣的歌曲的两个链接，还有flash动画。

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/elementsong.html
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

我的那个磁带上的版本，和上面两个有一点不同，中间加入了几句话。有人告诉我可能是Harvard大学化学系的高级讲师（Senior Lecturer）Jim Davis（Mr. Chips）唱的。Davis的确会在普通化学课上唱这首歌，不过我还是不敢肯定磁带上就是他的声音。

Harvard University Gazette上2001年关于Davis退休的新闻报道：http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/12.13/32-davis.html

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The Element's Song

Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan

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
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 phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and 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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