I found a way to memorize the lanthanoids too! And Aaron is not nearly as impressed with this as I think he should be, so naturally, I'm blogging about it. (also, my pictures improved! look at that trembling yak!)
story one: LaCe (lanthanum and cerium) pros (praseodymium) need (neodymium) Prometheus (promethium) to save 'em (samarium, which is abbreviated Sm) in Europe (europium).
random interlude: MRI!!! (gadolinium...which is used in MRI contrast agents, and I couldn't fit it into either story well. It's sort of like an interjection in a Teen Girl Squad cartoon. MRI'ed!!!!!! DIED!!!!)
story two: In a turbulent (terbium), dystopian (dysprosium) society, ho hos (holmium) send people to the ER (erbium, abbreviated Er), where they tremor (thulium, or Tm) like yaks (ytterbium...do you know of any words that feature a y and a b? me neither.) at a luau (lutetium).
Okay, so this was significantly harder than the actinoids and story two gets a little crazy at the end, but it totally worked.
F-block metals, you are memorized.
2 comments:
I, for one, am thoroughly impressed!
Fabulous. :) I have no idea what it is, but it sounds hard, and I am impressed. Nice going! :D
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