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Chemistry Carols

1. The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town
2. I'm dreaming of a white precipitate
3. Silent labs
4. Deck the labs
5. The twelve days of chemistry
6. Test tubes bubbling
7. O little melting particle
7. We wish you a happy halogen
8. Chemistry wonderland
9. I saw teacher kissing Santa Chlorine
10. O come all ye gases
11. We three students of chemistry are
12. Iron the Red Atom Molecule
13. Lab reports
14. Silver nitrate


1.  The Chemistry Teacher's Coming to Town
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You better not weigh
You better not heat
You better not react
I'm telling you now
The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town.

He's collecting data
He's checking it twice
He's gonna find out
The heat of melting ice
The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town.

He sees you when you're decanting
He knows when you titrate
He knows when you are safe or not
So wear goggles for goodness sake.

Oh, you better not filter
And drink your filtrate
You better not be careless and spill your precipitate.
The Chemistry Teacher's coming to town.


2.  I'm Dreaming of a White Precipitate
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I'm dreaming of a white precipitate
   just like the ones I used to make
Where the colors are vivid
   and the chemist is livid
      to see impurities in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white precipitate
   with every chemistry test I write
May your equations be balanced and right
   and may all your reactions be bright.


3.  Silent Labs
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Silent labs, difficult labs
All with math, all with graphs
Observations of colors and smells
Calculations and graph curves like bells
Memories of tests that have past
   Oh--how long will chemistry last?

Silent labs, difficult labs
All with math, all with graphs
Lots of equations that need balancing
Gas pressure problems that make my head ring
Santa Chlorine's on his way
   Oh--Please Santa bring me an 'A'.

4. Deck the Labs
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Deck the labs with rubber tubing
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Use your funnel and your filter
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Don we now our goggles and aprons
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Before we go to our lab stations
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Fill the beakers with solutions
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Mix solutions for reactions
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Watch we now for observations
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.
So we can collect our data
  Fa la la la la, la la la la.


5.  The Twelve Days of Chemistry
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On the first day of chemistry
   My teacher gave to me
A candle from Chem Study.

(second day)   two asbestos pads
(third day)    three little beakers
(fourth day)   four work sheets
(fifth day)    five golden moles
(sixth day)    six flaming test tubes
(seventh day)  seven unknown samples
(eighth day)   eight homework problems
(ninth day)    nine grams of salt
(tenth day)    a ten page test
(eleventh day) eleven molecules
(twelfth day)  a twleve point quiz


6.  Test Tubes Bubbling  
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(to the tune of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

Test tubes bubbling in a water bath
    Strong smells nipping at ypur nose.
Tiny molecules with their atoms all aglow
    Will find it hard to be inert tonight.

They know that Chlorine's on its way
    He's loaded lots of little electrons on his sleigh
And every student's slide rule is on the sly
    To see if the teacher really can multiply.

And so I offer you this simple phrase
    To chemistry students in this room
Although it's been said many times, many ways
    Merry molecules to you.


7.  We Wish You a Happy Halogen
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We wish you a happy halogen
We wish you a happy halogen
We wish you a happy halogen
To react with a metal.

Good acid we bring
   to you and your base.
We wish you a merry molecule
   and a happy halogen.


8.  Chemistry Wonderland
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Gases explode, are you listenin'
   In your rest tube, silver glistens
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
   Walking in a chemistry wonderland.

Gone away, is the buoyancy
   Here to stay, is the density
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
   Walking in a chemistry wonderland.

In the beaker we will make lead carbonate
   and decide if what's left is nitrate
My partner asks "Do we measure it in moles or grams?"
   and I'll say, "Does it matter in the end?"

Later on, as we calculate
   the amount, of our nitrate
We'll face unafraid, the precipitates that we made
   walking in a chemistry wonderland.
   

9.  I Saw Teacher Kissing Santa Chlorine
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I saw teacher kissing Santa Chlorine
   under the chemistree last night
They didn't sneak me down the periodic chart
   to take a peek
At all the atoms reacting in their beakers;
   it was neat.

And I saw teacher kissing Santa Chlorine
   under the chemistree so bright
Oh what a reaction there would have been
   if the principal had walked in
With teacher kissing Santa Chlorine last night.


10.  O Come all ye Gases
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O Come all yea gases
   diatomic wonders
O come yea, o come yea
   calls Avogadro.

O come yea in moles
   6 x 10 to the 23rd
O molar mass and molecules
   O volume, pressure and temperature
O molar volume of gases at S.T.P.


11.  We Three Students of Chemistry Are
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We three students of chemistry are
   taking tests that we think are hard
Stoichiometry, volumes and densities
   worrying all the time.

O room of wonder
   room of fright
Room of thermites
   blinding light:
With your energies
   please don't burn us
Help us get our labs all right.


12.  Iron the Red Atom Molecule
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(to the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

There was Cobalt and Argon and Carbon and Fluorine
   Silver and Boron and Neon and Bromine 
But do you recall
   the most famous element of all?

Iron the red atom molecule
   had a very shiny orbital
And if you ever saw him
   You'd enjoy his magnetic glow
All of the other molecules
   used to laugh and call him Ferrum
They never let poor Iron
   join in any reaction games.
Then one inert Chemistry eve
   Santa came to say
Iron with your orbital so bright
   won't you catalyze the reaction tonight?
Then how the atoms reacted
   and combined in twos and threes
Iron the red atom molecule
   you'll go down in Chemistry!


13. Lab Reports
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(to the tune of Jingle Bells)

Dashing through the lab
   with a tan page lab report
Taking all those tests
   and laughing at them all
Bells for fire drills ring
   making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
   a chemistry song tonight.

Oh, lab report, lab reports,
   reacting all the way
Oh what fun it is to study 
   for a chemistry test today, Hey!

Chemistry test, chemistry test
   isn't it a blast
Oh what fun it is to take
   a chemistry test and pass.


14.  Silver Nitrate
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(to the tune of Silver Bells)

Silver nitrate, silver nitrate
   it's chemistry time in the lab
Ding-a-ling, with a copper ring
   soon it will be chemistry day.

Take your nitrate, in solution
   Add your copper with style
In the beaker there's a feeling of reactions
   silver forming, blue solution
Bringing ooh's ah's and wows
   now the data procesing begins.

Get the mass, change to moles 
   what is the ratio with copper?
Write an equation, balance it
   we're glad it's Chemistry Day.

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Gavin Grandish
Vancouver, B.C.
grandish@helix.net