Comments on: NaCl (Sodium Chloride)

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:34:09 +0000

Super night last night at Buxton. Thanks to Jon n John.

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:23:54 +0000

What a strange little song but clever for all that. Just wished there was a bit more tune to it.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:25:26 +0000

Love this, I’m a Chemistry teacher and it is going into a lesson soon!! Another Chemistry song which is good fun is Flanders and Swann on Entropy.

By: Alan Rosevear

Alan Rosevear — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:15:31 +0000

There as some “trades” that lend themselves to being used in folk songs – but chemists must be a long way down the table (with the trans-uranics) – though magicians and blacksmiths, our predecessors, are near the top. Even a chemist like me would start to get uncomfortable at imposing more than a couple of verses on NaCl on a singaround audience.
Thankfully there are lots of good songs this month so my comment is unlikely to elevate this ditty to the threshold for top 5 for voting!!

By: Peter Walsh

Peter Walsh — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:25:43 +0000

If anyone wants to hear Kate and Anna’s version, Spotify has the album The McGarrigle Hour available to hear, which has 20 other tunes to enjoy too!

By: Matthew Edwards

Matthew Edwards — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:02:27 +0000

A not quite accurate copy of the lyrics appears in the Digital Tradition database on Mudcat; Sodium Chloride.

A lovely song, but I think the McGarrigle family could sing the telephone directory, and still make it sound beautiful and original! They just love to sing anything and everything, and do it with such an infectious enthusiasm.

My favourite chemistry rhyme went something like this;-

Little Billy took a drink,
Alas! Billy is no more:
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4.

Sadly that is all that remains from my Chemistry O-Level 1969!

Matthew

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:32:40 +0000

What a little gem, I love this one! It appeals to my geeky side!

By: LadyD

LadyD — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:43:51 +0000

@ Alison The elements song sooo gets stuck in your head.

By: Alison McKee

Alison McKee — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:06:02 +0000

Yes, re Tom Lehrer and The Elements — I was just going to say the same thing! I could never handle Chemistry or anything scientific but always knew the song when at school and can still sing it 45 years later, although I think new elements have been discovered since then.

Give it a go Jon!!

By: Kasper Loopstra

Kasper Loopstra — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:40:25 +0000

As this popped up in the reader feed yesterday before the post on the site, I had to give it a listen or two before I was sure I got the subject matter right. I only caught on halfway through the first time I heard. Great song though, and definitely on to remember for the next person who doesn’t redox reactions. Might be could to get some more chemists in contact with the folk world as well.

As for the element song, even though I love Tom Lehrer’s songs and I’m a chemistry student, to me that is one of his worse songs…