Canadian educators Mitchell Moffitt and Gregory Brown recorded “The Periodic Table Song” for their AsapSCIENCE YouTube channel.
Lyrics:
There’s Hydrogen and Helium
Then Lithium, Beryllium
Boron, Carbon everywhere
Nitrogen all through the airWith Oxygen so you can breathe
And Fluorine for your pretty teeth
Neon to light up the signs
Sodium for salty timesMagnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Phosphorus
Then Sulfur, Chlorine, and Argon
Potassium and Calcium, so you’ll grow strong
Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium
And Chromium and ManganeseThis is the Periodic Table
Noble Gas is stable
Halogens and Alkali react aggressively
Each period we’ll see new outer shells
While electrons are added moving to the rightIron is the 26, then Cobalt
Nickel, coins you get
Copper, Zinc, and Gallium
Germanium and ArsenicSelenium and Bromine film
While Krypton helps light up your room
Rubidium and Strontium
Then Yttrium, ZirconiumNiobium, Molybdenum, Technetium
Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium
Silver-ware, then Cadmium and IndiumTin-cans, Antimony, then Tellurium
And Iodine and Xenon, and then Caesium
And Barium is 56, and this is where the table splits
Where lanthanides have just begun
Lanthanum, Cerium and PraseodymiumNeodymium’s next to Promethium, then 62
Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium, and Terbium
Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium
Thulium, Ytterbium, LutetiumHafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten
Then we’re on to Rhenium, Osmium, and Iridium
Platinum, Gold to make you rich till you grow old
Mercury to tell you when it’s really coldThallium and Lead, then Bismuth for your tummy
Polonium, Astatine would not be yummy
Radon, Francium will last a little time
Radium, then Actinides at 89This is the Periodic Table
Noble Gas is stable
Halogens and Alkali react aggressively
Each period we’ll see new outer shells
While electrons are to the rightActinium, Thorium, Protactinium
Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium
Americium, Curium, Berkelium, Californium
Einsteinium, Fermium, Mendelevium, Nobelium
Lawrencium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium
Bohrium, Hassium, then Meinerium, Darmstadtium
Roentgenium, CoperniciumUnuntrium, Flerovium
Ununpentium, Livermorium
Ununseptium, Ununoctium
And then we’re done
