BBC Schools - Science Topics - The Periodic Table

[CJRandomTV]

think i feel asleep watching this........

[Jarren202]

Thanks, Argon.

Thargon.

[pooppeeyoupants]

this is kinda outdated ?

[ericscerri]

Yes the song is cute but of little educational value since the elements are listed in a random order. Somebody should come up with an equally good song in which the elements occur in order of increasing atomic number. Overall an excellent video as one would expect from the BBC.

Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2007.

[mwvandersteen]

The song is 'The Elements' by Tom Lehrer. Lots of information can be found in the wikipedia article 'The Elements (song)'.

[im0somebody]

this sucks...no offense

[pranavarora1995]

I couldn't find that pottasium reacted more violently with water than lithium in

the experiment....

[iElite6809]

@pranavarora1995 K melts itself into a ball because it's rotating violently. Li doesn't.

Also, why the hell isn't Rhenium, Technetium, Francium, Polonium, Promethium or like half of the Actinides on there? They were all discovered.

[spikeyroberto]

daniel radcliffe did this on the graham norton show!

[euch27]

Wait, how did potassium react more vigorously than Lithium?

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

Hell I remeber this from my early days in senior school. Finally science was made interesting thanks to the clip of the elements reacting with water, we were especially impressed with the caesium. Can remember the science teacher doing a similar experiment, we asked what the reaction would be with sulphuric acid but the spoilt sport wouldn't show us, something about causing a big explosion, well that what me and my mates wanted. I learned that science is much more fun than maths.

[Templar7832]

I'd love to get a recording of it anyone know where?

[PortVienna80]

4:18 My goodness-couldn't do that these days....

[koksy]

LOL i haven't seen this since I was about 13!

[emilyyXbabess]

im using this to revise for my gcse's (:

tis amazing ;D

[chrysevstar]

They should've shown francium...

[dragonridley]

The problem is that there are no more than a few grams of francium on earth and it is extremely radioactive; the longest lived isotope has a half-life of only 22 minutes.

[OriChild]

i had this song shown in a lesson a few years ago... the teacher was singing to it... then played it again and tryed to get us to join in... it was so.. weird? cool song though!

[y11971alex]

This is really nice, but it is really like an airport broadcast.

[DavidTL]

This song shows how British and American people vary so much on pronunciation!

[NewSize]

Aww great.. I saw this video today..

I love the song btw!

[reelsonwheels]

I remember this one as well! That song is a classic!

[billybobsteele]

we heard that song i class once

does anyone use the short periodic table...i didn't even know it existed

[emmalouisefu]

i also remeber this

[lilm77]

I remember this at school-my science class thought it was hilarious.

[hyderpotter]

I remember it too

[Outcastwolf]

Aw man. I remember watching this about 4 times in Chemistry. I love how the video explains the anomaly in the table at 6:24 with "No pattern is perfect". Nice.

[1981aLaN]

First broadcasted on 5 Feb 1985 at 1:15pm, in the days when schools programmes went into the mid-afternoon - bring it all back!!

[durhh]

this is by Tom Lehrer