nucleargirl said:
lol thanks Graphene :) sounds good to me! your electron and my uh... nuclear properties... we could set off a fission reaction!
I'm sorry I came late to this conversation. There is a lovely song along these lines. I posted it before in a different thread. I heard it on the Dr. Demento show many years ago and never forgot the words. I do not know the name of it or who wrote or performed it.
Just an atom of chlorine, valence minus one.
Swimming through the sea, digging the scene, just having fun.
She's not worried about the shape or size of her outside shell.
It's fun to ionize.
Just an atom of Cl, with an unfilled shell.
Somewhere in that sea lurks handsome Sodium.
With enough electrons on his outside shell plus that extra one.
Somewhere in this deep blue sea there's a positive
for my extra energy. Yes,
somewhere in this foam my negative will find a home.
Then unsuspecting Chlorine felt a magnetic pull.
She looked down and her outside shell was full.
Sodium cried "What a gas, be my bride,
and I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride."
Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds for the rain and snow.
Leaving her chemical compounds in the absence of H2O.
But the crystals that wash upon the shore are happy ones.
So, if you never thought before,
think of the love that you eat when you salt your meat.
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