In 1959 musical satirist Tom Lehrer (who had a master's degree in mathematics from Harvard) created a song simply using the names of the chemical elements that were known in 1959 and setting them to the music of Arthur Sullivan (most specifically the music from the "Major-General's Song" from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Around 2003, Mike Stanfill animated the song, updating it in 2012 with all the elements discovered since 1959. The video contains several visual puns, can you spot some of them?
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