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The infamous Harry Potter legend, Daniel Radcliffe, recently re-established just how much street cred he has by performing “The Elements” song on a BBC radio show “Star Caller” – a segment of the show where norms like you and I receive a phone call from one of our favorite celebs. I seemed to be behind on the news that firstly, this song existed, and secondly, that this is his party trick. Check out the lyrics and give it a try…. good luck with that.
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,
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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 andd tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
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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 Harvard and there may be many others, but they haven’t been discovered.
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