This is a detail from the “Oxygen” entry for this photographic periodic table of the elements.
Last night for his bedtime reading, when asked to choose from a small stack of books that also included adventure and humor, for his bedtime story my eight-year-old chose “The Mystery of the Periodic Table.”
Did you know that gold is one of the few elements that is naturally found concentrated in large qualities in a pure state near the surface of the earth?
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Last night I was just thinking of introducing that song to him.
Gee thanks a lot Dennis, now I’ll have Tom Lehrer’s “Elements Song” stuck in my head all day!!!
You know – this one: http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html