Chemistry Carols- Parody
I Had The Strangest Dream- Fossil Parody
The Answer Is…
Music Blowin in the Wind. by Bob Dylan; lyrics by Ms. Vo
Singer: Phuong Vo (Ms.Vo)
How many moles are there in 5 grams_ of sulfur trioxide gas?
How many grams of carbon dioxide, are made burning two moles of methane?
How many grams of boron trifluoride, are made using two moles of fluorine?
The answer my friends is stoichiometry; the answer is stoichiometry.
How many bonds does a water molecule have?
How many lone electrons?
Yes, how many bonds does ammonia gas have?
And how many lone electrons?
And how many bonds does oxygen gas have?
How many lone electrons?
The answer my friends is VSEPR… the answer is VSEPR
How many moles of hexane can dissolve in 2 liters of methanol?
How many grams of cesium hydroxide can be dissolved in the water?
How many moles of chlorophyll can dissolve in 5 liters of ethanol?
The answer my friends is solubility, the answer is solubility
Lyrics by Ms. Vo , sung to the tune of Jim Henson’s song “I’d Like to Visit The Moon”
Singer: Ms Vo (Phuong Vo)
Well, I’d like to prepare some salts In a test tube and under fume hood
Yes, I’d like to prepare some salts
But I don’t think I’d like to eat them
Though I’d like to look down at the salts from outside
They might have some toxic polyatomic ions
So although I might like to do chemistry
I don’t want to eat them with fries
I’d like to make calcium carbonate
They are found in my bone and my teeth
Yes, I’d like to make carbonates
They can form beautiful minerals
I might keep them a few days if I had my wish
But there’s not much to do once they form a solid
And transition ions make better colors
So I don’t want to keep them too long.
I’d like to prepare nitrate salts, hear them explode
Make some sulfates and some acetate
There’s ammonium salts I’d like to have
But none of them with my French fries
So I should prepare some salts
Well, I’ll choose atomic ions well
I will make them look colorful
And I’ll keep them around for a while
Though I’d like to look down at the salts from outside
They might have some toxic polyatomic ions
So although I might like to do chemistry
I don’t want to eat all those salts
No, I don’t want to eat them at all.