Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Your element in literature!

Summarize and reference your element in literature! This includes novels, poems, songs etc. Pl;ease find five references and link to two you tube videos.

19 comments:

  1. VIDEOS:
    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57V-jAA9RL8
    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fA2WP_47vc

    LITERATURE:
    -"Love Is Like Oxygen" is a song by the British band Sweet, co-written by the group's guitarist Andy Scott and Trevor Griffin.
    -(Oxygen is a song by Bryan Adams that came out a long time ago)
    "Oxygen, every moment, oxygen everyday
    I can't live without it, don't take it away
    I need to breathe you in like oxygen"
    -H2O: Just Add Water (this is an Australian tv show about 3 mermaids that can be humans too)
    -Oxygen is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Oxygen Media, LLC
    -Oxygen Poem
    "
I'd hold my own breath,
I'd hold it all day,
Oxygen's useless,
Is what I did say..." and then it continues on talking about oxygen.

    --Jeanne H.

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  2. Videos:
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHZ9jh7IhkU
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nklvuocGCAQ

    Literature:
    1. Silver as can be
    silver in the battery
    silver of my luiminous shining foil

    Lithium to the battery
    Lithium to us
    Luiminous as you could ever be

    Silver is what you arne'nt
    Lithium is what you are
    silver as can be
    yes it is to the battery
    I love this battery you are in"

    2. Life as Lithium is not that great
    Why you may ask?
    Well, I felt free and at home once
    In my igneous rock
    Until all the dumb Homo sapiens
    (Especially Johann Arvedsen)
    Decided that its time
    For me to move
    And make myself useful.
    Where did I move was not that great
    For it’s always about their stupid needs
    To move me to places like batteries
    Microwaves, other heat-transferring appliances
    And even pills.
    Oh, how I loathed it.
    I miss being a soft, silver white metal
    Who was the lightest metal of them all
    Oh, I miss being in my igneous rock,
    That I call home.

    3. You soothe my speeding head.
    As my pace will never slow,
    Without your loving silver,
    To refresh my manic mind!

    Stabilize my erratic self.
    I am depression, in its true state.
    I am the ultimate delusion,
    You can change my fate.

    The creative have always used you:
    To balance their thoughts, or as a piece of art.
    You are the hero’s hero.
    Society owes you tremendous gratitude.

    You run our modern world,
    The electronics depend on your ultimate power.
    Much longer than the old,
    You are the King of our technological world.

    4. Lithium makes me
    float.
    She calls me up
    through the fire
    out above the
    clouds
    against the soft
    caressing kiss
    of the stars
    and their
    blanket of night.

    Lithium makes me
    float.
    with her smile
    and giggle.
    she squabbles often
    with nothing even
    remotely real.
    and she follows
    me.

    Lithium makes me
    float.
    and on her eyes
    I could sail all day.

    5.Every day
    she takes the pill:
    pill goes in mouth, water
    goes in mouth, pill
    is down.

    Without it she'd fly apart:
    in all directions she'd be
    running, frantic
    shopping, talking too fast,
    starting the Next Big Thing
    That Would Not Be Finished.

    Eventually, like a bulb
    burned too bright, she'd go dark: days
    slow, in bed, hardly moving
    crying, crying,
    waiting hopeless
    for the next fast time.

    Grace H.

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  3. Videos:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdirs4h-LZ4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25QiTmckeZk
    Literature:
    Truth: Platinum of Highest Purity
    Others labor hard for Truth
    Placed deep in the core of man,
    A Platinum of greatest density,
    Truth must be drawn
    Like everlasting water from a well

    Jethro Tull: Crazed Institution
    And you can ring a crown of roses round your cranium,
    live and die upon your cross of platinum.
    Join the crazed institution of the stars.
    Be the man that you think (know) you really are.

    Double Platinum, 1999 movie

    The Platinum Rule, How I Met Your Mother

    In Pursuit of Platinum: The Shocking Secret of World War II by Vic Robbie

    Platinum by Jo Rees

    Patty M.

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  4. Silver referred in literature:

    1) "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is a song by the Beatles, sung by Paul McCartney on their album Abbey Road. This song is has eccentric lyrics about a man named Maxwell who commits murder with a hammer.

    2) The Silver Linings Playbook is a 2008 novel of American author Matthew Quick.

    3) In the Doctor in "The Big Bang", the Doctor connects the four elements. In the same episode at Amy Pond's wedding, she recites this saying to help remember the Doctor (excluding the line "And a silver sixpence in her shoe"), who had previously been erased from time.

    4) In The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, Pat reads the book, taking a special liking to it since Hester Prynne "Believed in Silver Linings."

    5) There is a billboard in game that says "Rehab Island" that features a palm tree in the middle of the two words. Very similar to the logo for the Dead Island series by Deep Silver.

    Youtube links:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2WT4wEZs4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBhyfm3Usk

    Sofia K.

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  5. 1. The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat by Eric Roston- The story of carbon—the building block of life that, ironically, is humanity’s great threat.
    2. Poem entitled Carbon Monoxide (CO) Week 2: Carbon Cabrona which was written by poet Hai Au Chu.- part of the poem:
    "Smokeless inhales hurt.
    I cough tar on my shirt.
    As my black lungs breathe,
    Shrilling exhales wheeze.

    Cabrona
    Falls me
    Down to
    My knees.
    3. Altered Carbon- (2002) is a hardboiled cyberpunk science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan.
    4. Carbon is an original member of the Elements of Doom.
    5. A quote by Michele Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle."
    6. TV show: The “Carbon Cops” Sean Fitzgerald and Lish Fejer demonstrate how awareness and technology can be combined in simple and practical terms to help people reduce their own carbon footprint and tackle the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.
    7. Car Game: Need for Speed: Carbon, also known as NFS Carbon or NFSC, is an Electronic Arts video game belonging to the Need for Speed series.
    8. CARBON CONNECTION
    Carbon comes in many forms
    Hard as diamond, soft as soot
    Coal or graphite when we write
    And fancy fullerine to boot.
    Carbon chains are straight or branched
    Or closed to form a ring
    Organic compounds these are called
    Parts for life they bring.
    Coal and oil and fuel gas
    Once mined they have much worth
    These reservoirs of energy
    Were once alive on earth.
    When carbon joins with oxygen
    It's either two or one
    The double causes drinks to fizz
    The single one? you're gone.
    I mean carbon dioxide's fairly good
    Most days it is our friend
    But carbon monoxide's something else
    One miss can mean the end.
    -- Poem by Peter Elias
    Videos:
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLs73KJI36w?rel=0&wmode=opaque&autoplay=1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKFsxb8i4tU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPIc-9-owyk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5nHBORbTI

    Jae Hee L.

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  6. 1. Zinc was used in the comic book Metal Men in 1904
    2. Zinc was used in a poem called Zinc o Zinc by Grainy

    I remember walking
    With my dad to see
    A lime kiln to hear about
    Zinc and extraction.
    Bronze age volcanoes.

    I remember the smell
    Of zinc from the lab
    They told me it wasn't
    What I meant to do.
    They are the experts.

    I remember reading
    About the zinc prices
    And lost time accidents
    They have these here too.
    I've black safety boots.

    In Texas he asked why
    I hurt myself with
    This strange dedication
    I had no answer.
    He's engaged now.

    A prodigy returns
    Just for the weekend
    Sits outside in the rain
    Contemplates zinc and
    Plans her extraction.
    3. Used in the hand book called: Everything about every element.
    4. Zinc is an original member of the elements of doom
    5. Zinc- By Kristi Lew

    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-cC6gWIeNk
    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUDDiWtFtEM

    PG

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  7. Argon in Literature
    Poems:
    There once was a noble gas
    Who had 40 for a molecular mass
    It's found in the lights
    That add day to our night,
    I hope my grade reads "passed"
    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090511191249AAYrajC

    I Am Argon
    My atomic number is eighteen
    I’m a gas many scientists have seen
    I’m the most common noble gas on the Earth
    One percent of the atmosphere, for what it’s worth.

    Similar to Oxygen is my solubility
    I’ve never made a compound stably
    I’m pretty mellow, I’ll never react
    But I can be a current through which Mercury will pass

    Argon-39 is often used for ice-coring
    A hobby most people find very boring
    I am Argon, hear me roar
    I’m always ready to tell you more.
    By Kellie Holt
    http://www.everypoet.net/element/display.php?symbol=Ar

    To be third,
    yet noble enough to be called so.
    This blue,
    colour of royalty, sir, baron,
    this hue.
    Coloured or colourless,
    ask the light?
    But colours have no smell,
    not blue.
    Red rose, green apple, purple grape,
    but blue is argon's light.
    By Claire St-Laurent
    http://www.everypoet.net/element/display.php?symbol=Ar

    The Most Noble Gas.
    A true sight to see
    As soon as she smiles.
    The world gets filled
    With a beam. But she's
    Always there for a while
    Until you close your eyes.
    And dream about happy things
    Like Lighting up The Sky!

    Comic:
    The Battle for Argon Falls

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  8. Poem 1: Alphabet Sentence
    Always beneath
    Certain days end forever
    Geniuses hold idioms
    Just kill lamentations
    Many normal old people
    Question reason
    Still, tomorrow usually varies
    Whether xenon yields zeniths.
    By: Ellen Bee

    Poem 2: Xenon
    I am a electric ozone haze
    an angry hum and a frantic white spark,
    a frantic white fire
    dancing through the wires
    dancing across my fingers
    across my eyes as they dart back and forth
    smoke as it rises from my skin, from the top of my skull
    Heart seized in a stuttering spasm, violently twisting itself to a stop inside my chest
    I am the dancing white spark
    I am the dancing white fire
    My xenon glares, electric eyes blink
    A flickering glow worm haze of light behind my smiling backward glance
    I am a tracery of images
    I am a photoelectric bliss falling shutter speed slow motion until I stop.
    By: David Galloway

    3. Xenon (重機甲兵ゼノン Jūki Kōhē Zenon?, lit. "Heavy Metal Warrior Xenon") (aka. Bio Diver Xenon) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Masaomi Kanzaki.
    4. Xenon is the name of a Spanish rock musical group. Alex Mudarra and Enrique Ocaña play the guitar, Gemma Barris-Esparbé Guixà sings, Ismael Serradilla plays the saxophone, Albert Vega plays the electric bass and Josep Cordobés plays the drums. Some of their most famous songs are "Mi princesa" or "Rozando el cielo".
    Poem 5: Xenon
    I don’t care
    that you’re no
    Zena warrior princess,
    I just can’t stand
    those high-intensity
    headlights of yours
    at night.
    You may numb me
    from my pain
    if I breathe you in,
    but the only good
    your brightness may do
    is that your excitement
    may add color and life
    to my plasma tee vee.
    But, you know,
    if I love outer space,
    I should like the fact
    that you are the propellant
    in Ion drives —
    because if Xenon is the ion,
    it can be shot out of a rocket
    in outer space,
    forcing the rocket
    to move faster and faster
    through the void
    of outer space.
    Then again,
    I’m not going to outer space,
    and there’s no funding
    to get us humans
    into outer space
    right now anyway...
    So I’m sorry.
    you may think
    you’ve got some
    bright ideas,
    but when I’m driving
    at night,
    sometimes I think
    you should keep
    some of your ideas
    in check.
    By: Janet Kuypers

    Video links:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbeMsPE_oM (Xenon Song)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey2WHX6oGE4 (Xenon poem by Janet Kuypers)


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  9. 1. Is a comic book about tantalum that is a hero that defeats a guy with water with tantalum water, whihc is a very good electric conductor.
    2. Is a book about tantalum that explains its uses for technology, medicine and chemistry
    3) Tantalum is a fairly new biomaterial designed with a high and bone-binding porosity. That was a sentence used in the dictionary as anexample to use the word tantalum.
    4) tantalum was in the news saying that Apple was not using human friendly ways to extract the tantalum get needed.
    5) the us was not sure if they were getting the tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Conflict-Free places.

    1) http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/assets/images/br.gif
    2) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444516046
    3) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Tantalum?s=t
    4) TV
    5) http://resourceinvestingnews.com/tag/tantalum-articles

    Element song: http://youtu.be/ScZmFxv4ldQ
    Exploding capacipators slo-mo: http://youtu.be/63c3NDwk2TU
    Joaquin C.

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  10. References to Hydrogen in literature:

    1. Hydrogen is alluded to in the comic book, Metamorpho
    2, A poem:
    Hydrogen’s screaming,
    I'm number one!
    I got one less proton,
    Than that helium…
    We’re both really light,
    We both float in air,
    But I’m real combustible,
    Like poppa's arm hair!
    Elemental abundance?
    I am the most!
    In our whole universe,
    Just let me boast…
    Don’t give me more protons,
    I like my lightweight,
    Atomic number is 1!
    And 1's really great!
    Periodic table?
    I sit in first place!
    I’m not really stable,
    But that’s no disgrace…
    I am the first,
    And 1’s really fine!
    I’ll be number one,
    Until the day I combine!
    3. The Hydrogen Age is a movie that was released in 2004.
    4. Another poem:
    Hydrogen is oh-so common
    You need it to make top ramen
    It’s an ingredient for most foods
    Everyone loves it; girls and dudes.
    It’s got the lowest atomic number of one
    Its group name is none.
    Oxygen is it’s partner in crime.
    They’re always up for a good time.
    A colorless gas you cannot smell,
    On Hydrogen you shall not dwell.
    With one part oxygen and its twin
    We get water, let the fun begin!
    5. Hydrogen in referenced in the comic book,Wonder Woman.

    YouTube:
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ILqWcd214
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUDDiWtFtEM

    Tommy A.

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  11. Reference with the word Helium:
    1. Song: Helium Hearts by Jason Reevs, (pop) chorus lyrics:
    Cause we're on fire
    Walking love's highest
    Burning wire
    Helium hearts
    We're falling skyward
    We're never coming down
    2. Poem called: Like helium balloons:
    Before our very eyes…

    Like helium balloons
    Ideas imbued with passion rise

    Like lead balloons
    Bad ideas sink like a rock

    Like Burst balloons
    That fragment before one’s eyes

    Like trial balloons
    Ideas conceived, then undock

    And float away
    Like lover’s sighs…

    Like helium balloons
    before our very eyes…
    3. Helium is mentioned in a comic: Thor, Number 115, September, 1965, page 15; There thor decides to battle a villain who absorbed all the elements except helium. Thor sees the villain's weakness.
    4. There is a movie called Helium, it came out this January. It is a drama about a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital's eccentric janitor Enzo, to a sick boy Alfred, so that he could regain the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life.
    5. Another song: Helium by Chris Lake (remix), chorus lyrics:
    And watch me go,
    Watch me go.
    Float away like helium, your love.
    Fill me up,
    Like helium, like helium, your love.
    Links:
    4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6X3Homj8U
    5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztuqU0imx5g
    -Vasilisa B.

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  12. Videos:
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6_pUE-3Pg
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHj6QFfs0jU

    Reference's in Literature:
    1. Nitrogen, is a comic book series that the main heroes are a team of mutant teens that go by the name of nitrogen.

    2. A poem about nitrogen by Janice;
    Nitrogen, nitrogen everywhere!
    Nitrogen, nitrogen in the air!
    It is such a useful thing,
    Oh it just makes me want to sing!
    It is in my blood, my DNA,
    I wouldn't exist without it, there's just no way!

    2. The Nitrogen Cycle Song by Amy Bronson is a folk song about nitrogen.
    Nitrogen composes 79% of our atmosphere
    and nitrogen is very important for sustaining life here.
    Let me tell you a little story about
    nitrogen fixation.
    Well lightning struck, and N2s joined with O2s to make nitrates and the little NO3s dissolved into rain and fell
    down to the ground to be absorbed by trees so proteins could be produced.
    Then an animal ate some of the trees leaves for protein
    to survive, until it died, boo hoo
    and decomposed into
    ammonia, then nitrites, then nitrates
    with a little bit of it turned back into nitrogen gas
    by denitrifying bacteria for the sake of balance.
    Then a human ate some of the trees leaves so it could have protein, too, but it didn’t die, no, it just peed
    in woods, oo,
    but that’s alright because urine contains urea which is
    ammonia which turns into nitrites and then nitrates
    with a little bit of it turned back into nitrogen gas
    by denitrifying bacteria for the sake of balance, hey balance, hey balance.
    Well, lightning’s not the only way for nitrogen to fixate, that is, to turn into nitrates,
    ask any vegetarian and they will tell you that legumes are an important source of protein but why?
    Well in the roots of these legumes live
    tiny nitrogen fixating bacteria and they too
    can make O2s join with N2s to make nitrates
    and the little NO3s dissolve into rain and fall down to the ground to be absorbed by trees so proteins can be
    produced
    and the animals and the people can eat them and pee
    and die and decompose into
    ammonia, then nitrites, then nitrates with a little bit of it turned back into nitrogen gas by denitrifying bacteria
    for the sake of balance, hey balance, hey balance.
    And this is a cycle so it happens over and over and this song’s over, it’s over, it’s over.
    The End.

    3. NitrogeN is a Rock-Metal-Punk band from Germany who like to capitalise both N's in nitrogen.

    4. Another poem about nitrogen called Nitrogen by By Nathan Long;
    You’re in every
    living tissue, but still,
    the French call you
    lifeless. They say
    they wouldn’t be
    caught dead alone
    with you in a room.
    They say the laughing
    gas and morphine
    just disguise the pain.
    They say, after that truck
    pulled up to that building
    full of kids and burst open,
    as bright as the stars
    where you are born, after
    the smog finally cleared,
    that we began to understand
    the difficulty of farm work,
    the meaning of dirty hands.

    5. Heather Hasan author of the novel Nitrogen. Tells the origin of nitrogen;
    The story of nitrogen started with a bang in Arthur Nobel's lab when he created dynamite...

    -Gabriel F.A.

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  13. -Song: Aluminium - By: Barenaked Ladies
    -Movie: Rancid Aluminium is a movie directed by Edward Thomas about a man who's company becomes bankrupt and the only way to save his company is to work with the Russian Mafia.
    -Poem: Aluminium - By: John Zandler
    Aluminium
    You are a dull silver metal
    Very soft, lightweight, and ductile
    You don’t sparkle and don’t corrode
    Han Cristian Orsted produced you in 1825
    You weren’t purified until 1827
    Long before then you were used
    You helped the Romans cure their wounds
    Melting for you takes 660°C
    You need more to boil, 2519°C to be exact
    From Airplanes to soda cans to bicycles
    You are there time and time again
    Its nice to have aluminum in our modern day lives
    -Comic: Sailor Moon. The villain in Sailor Moon is called Sailor Aluminium Siren
    -Poem: Aluminium - By: Stan Mulady
    Aluminum
    Aluminum foil
    Comes from the soil
    it is made into planes
    and especially trains
    it comes from bauxite
    that is found in the earth’s crust
    and it does not rust.
    Its atomic number is thirteen
    And its neutrons is fourteen
    It was found in 1825
    When a guy named Hans Christian Oersted was alive
    But he did not survive

    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGVo8eszXM
    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhG2e6mpdEY

    -Mariana C.

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  14. 1. A poem about neon, written by Siddharth Pandya:
    Neon
    It’s what makes some signs glow,
    It is the coolest element you know.
    It’s part of the noble gasses,
    And has one of the smaller masses.
    To specific it is 20.18,
    Having not so big a weight.
    Because of the fact that it has 8 electrons,
    It will never mate with the Boron’s.
    Founded by Sir William Ramsey,
    1898 was the date of his discovery.
    If you don’t know what this element is,
    Then you must not be a Chemistry wiz.

    2. In the show, inFamous: Second Son, neon is referred to and is used as a base element.

    3. Another poem about neon, written by Heather A. Young:
    Neon lights
    illuminating cities of sin,
    shamelessly calling out
    to deviant children
    of wonderfully dark indulgences.
    Painting red, the faces
    of Las Vegas street walkers.
    Painting blue, the naked bodies
    of New York's dancers.
    Giving a gritty underworld
    a vibrant, glamorous light
    in which to thrive.
    Its gentle electric hum
    a breathing pulse,
    festering in the midst of
    concrete and steel.
    A satire on organic chemistry.

    4. The novel, The Neon Bible, was published by John Kennedy Toole in 1989, and neon occurs in the book.

    5. The last poem, by Tiffany Mozejewski:
    Driving down the road,
    Looking back to see
    The red and yellow glow.

    Its name is Ne
    Its not that hard to see,
    Because if its red and yellow glow.

    It really isn’t mined,
    It’s not that hard to find
    Because of its red and yellow glow.

    It is very cold,
    Its cheap when its sold
    Because of its red and yellow glow.

    6. The song, A Song About Neon has lyrics which go as follows:
    neon was discovered in 1898
    by william ramsay and morris w. travers
    two guys who discovered other elements like krypton and xenon
    “the blaze of crimson light,” he wrote,
    “from the tube told its own story”
    “and was a sight to dwell upon and never forget”
    neon—its symbol is ne
    it doesn’t react to anything
    colorless unless exited electrically
    and it has no dangerous properties
    its a noble gas
    and it’s often held in tubes of glass
    and in small amounts it’s in our atmosphere
    neon is tasteless it makes unfunny jokes
    created while making liquid air,
    and it greek it means “new one”
    neon—its symbol is ne
    it doesn’t react to anything
    colorless unless exited electrically
    and it has no dangerous properties

    7. A movie theater in downtown Oregon is named after the element Neon.

    8. Neon appears in the DC comic series comic books.
    9. modern songs that use the word neon:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uDwppN5-w
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il3a7iM8NHM

    -Hannah S.

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  15. Videos:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRa9TOhIrc
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPdevJTGAYY

    Literature:
    1. Poem by: Jackie Mendoza
    Potassium is symbol K.
    About 39 it weigh.
    It is an alkali.
    Without potassium plants will die.
    Potassium is needed in a human’s diet.
    Mostly all kinds of foods have some potassium in it.
    Soap companies, glass-makers, and even CVS Pharmacy adore him.
    The greatest use of potassium is in the use of fertilizer.
    Discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1807.
    It is the color of silvery-white.
    Potassium is found in sylvite and carnallite.
    It was first found in potash.
    Potassium can be used to make a match.
    Its relaxes when with argon or any type of mineral oil.
    It helps to make up our world’s soil.

    2. School song about Potassium
    My name is potassium, that’s Kayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
    I’ve got 19 protons in me heyyyyyyyyyyyyy
    Inside my nucleus they stayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
    With their buddy neutrons and they playyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    And P +N equals atomic mass x4

    If another proton, to me, strayyyyyyed
    Like my buddy hydrogen that’s Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    I’d be a calcium, Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    How many neutrons in me heyyyyyyyyy

    And since P + N equals atomic mass,
    Subtract the P from the atomic mass,
    Use the table to find atomic mass,
    Now solve for N, just solve for N…

    I’ve got 20 of each from forty in me,
    20 of each from forty in me,
    That’s 20 of each is forty in me,
    20 of each from forty in me.

    3. Poem by: Kimber Smith
    Fee-fie-fo-fum, Here comes Potassium
    Previously known as kalium
    It was found in the 18th century.

    Soft, silver hued metal that turns white in the air
    It reacts violently with water, So take care!
    Often stored under inert mediums such as kerosene.

    In detergents, drain cleaners and soaps
    Also in bananas, grapefruits, and potatoes
    Even used in respiratory equipment and glass.

    Mined in California, Germany, and more
    You can even buy supplements from a store
    So get some Potassium, Its ahead of the class.

    4. Poem by: Anon.
    Potassium is my name,
    I'm dangerous in open air,
    so they hide me away in shame,
    I'm light,
    you can cut me,
    but I am toxic,
    explosive,
    and very reactive,
    and that's what's brought me to fame,
    so if you remember one thing,
    just one thing,
    remember I burn with a Lilac flame.

    5. Poem by: Joseph Heimer
    Please pass the potassium; I'm hungry
    For a hard bolus of liquid bliss
    To burn my heart, yearning
    For a kindly scrub-clad mercy, for a coda
    With beeping machines in counterpoint
    To the slither of blood-soaked sheets;
    To the rattling, desperate breaths
    To the orgasmic throbbing heartbeat
    And final flutter of drumming feet..

    O beautiful nurse, please take pity
    And kill me like my mother would
    Whisper it won't hurt as you press
    The plunger down down down
    To the bottom of the tube,
    To the end of sense,
    To the bottom of love-:
    Stroke my hair and tell me
    It will all be over soon.

    -Diego Ortiz

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  16. Videos:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-lelxbUVE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2_E0X38FU
    Literature:
    1. That is Iodine

    Iodine oh, Iodine
    why must you be so pretty
    from silver to gray like a crystallized city.
    That is Iodine.
    The end of the world is just around the corner,
    A nuclear bomb fell into place
    and there was a problem,
    That is Iodine.
    A cut was lifted
    and your liquid tablets cured it,
    your atomic number is 53
    don’t worry your in group 17 as a disguise.
    That was Iodine.

    By Mark Conely

    2. O so Solid but yet so bright
    Sparkling violet through the night
    In group 17 is where I'm found
    I am one of five look don't look 'round

    The halogens' claim me in their group
    I don't smell good kind of like goup
    I am used often in table salt
    I'm sometimes poinonous but it's not my fault

    Your cuts and wound I clean
    To make sure they don't turn green

    By Hannah Caswell

    3. MAN IODINE PARAGON
    Call your control tower;
    announce a plain arrival;
    make the elemental case.
    SUBLIMING IT EASILY
    Summon Greek for violet;
    arriving at solid grounding,
    meet a human requirement.
    PROVIDING FOR IODINE
    Aware of a characteristic odor,
    occur in conscious land and sea,
    compensating a poisonous nature.
    SHINE OUT A NON METALLIC
    Fix an intense irritation to the eyes;
    heal a big awkwardness, by a nose;
    husband your cure, to clear a throat.
    OPTIMIZING YOUR IODINE BILLS
    Make the positive charge in open court;
    weigh your benefits to get over defects;
    indeed pay heed to each deed you need.
    TAKE THE ANTISEPTIC APPROACH
    Idealize the position beyond being assailed;
    refine an element to meet this specification;
    perfect your idea, which includes all comers.
    MODERATING YOUR BIG IODINE EGO
    Be courteous enough to, at least, notice others;
    have the common decency to be polite to a tea;
    enjoy a regular attendance to a church of choice.
    INVOLVING THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE
    Apply your keen instincts to discover a free will;
    explore at liberty possibility, to a heart's content;
    give respect to this gene spectrum, use of iodine.

    By Will Smart

    4. Iodine

    It is the way of farmers
    (like my father)
    to deal with pain
    silently, solitarily,
    a wound and an iodine streak
    fading sunset red to yellow
    the only outward sign.

    By Erin Kinly

    5. They sent it in the post;
    (two tablets our protection
    against the atom bomb)
    and I remember rubbing in to cuts,
    falling in to summer days with knees
    capped, primed for pavements,
    the trip, split yell and rush
    gush of adolecent blood, stopped
    by its smearing kiss-it-better streak.
    If windscale climbs to meet us in our street
    will it speak the same calm words?

    By Seremba

    Ivor V


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  17. 1. Krypton is a musical band of the United Kingdom.
    2. It is also Superman's planet
    3. Book: from krakow to krypton- by Arie Kaplan
    4. Book: the last days of krypton- based on Superman
    5. Kryptonite is what makes superman as weak as the rest of human beings.



    Laura L.

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