Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Tom Lehrer's Elements song

2007-03-26 Thread Crystal
Really? I didn't know that "Hanukah in Santa Monica" was a recent tune. Lately, I've been singing the "L-Y" song for my son. One of the lines is "You enter a very dark room / and suddenly there in the gloom / is Dracula now how do you say Goodbye? / IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY Immediate-L-Y! Bye b

Re: [Chat] [Discussion] Tom Lehrer's Elements song

2007-03-22 Thread Stephen J Gewirtz
Judy, There are 92 that occur naturally, plus others like plutonium (used in bombs) that are produced in nuclear reactors. Some exist only for a fraction of a second before they decay (and I'm not sure how they are produced or detected). But there now are more than 100; I'm not sure how man