Science Week: Harry Potter Goes Chemical

This whole week is going to be the "Science Week" in Ireland, the aim of "Science Week" is to promote the relevance of science, engineering and technology in our everyday lives and to demonstrate the importance of these disciplines to the future development of Irish society and to the economy.

And trying to do my bit for my country, I'm posting a very funny video of Daniel Radcliffe, also known as Harry Potter singing the song "Elements" by his hero (according to his words) Tom Lehrer.  Aparently the "chosen one" was very much into chemistry before getting interested in magic...

It's really worth the listening! 

Here you are the lyrics:

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,
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, 
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, 
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.

Also if you like, the chance to listen to the original version by Tom Lehrer may be interesting, and just in case you find it difficult to follow, which i highly doubt, you can read the lyrics.