As a Chemistry student, the first few things that you need to know is definitely the position of elements in the Periodic Table. To anyone that come across chemistry in their lifes, the Periodic Table is likened to the “Bible of Chemistry” – you need to understand at least:
- Position of Elements in Periodic Table
- Definition of Group Numbers
- Definition of Period
- Atomic Number
- Mass Number
All this have been discussed before in earlier posts, especially the Periodic Table Mini Series.
Many students that are new to Chemistry, must be feeling that Chemistry is such a boring abstract subject…In fact, Chemistry is very interesting if you know the concepts well.. and for Periodic Table, there is a video / song known as “The Element Song” by Tom Lehrer that has very high page views in Youtube.
Check this out:
Interesting yeah??!!??
And if you want to know how some of the elements really look like in everyday lifes, check out another awesome video below:
Catchy song isn’t it? If you would like to master this song (i have yet to do so!! tongue tied and breathless!!), here is 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, (gasp)
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, (gasp)
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 Havard,
And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.
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