Watch a man chew Indium like it's bubblegum

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Originally published at: Watch a man chew Indium like it's bubblegum | Boing Boing

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It’s likely also the most expensive chewing gum in the universe…

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The fibrous allotrope of sulfur (Sn) also has a chewing-gum consistency and is non-toxic.

(Some water-soluble sulfur allotropes are laxatives but you’d still have to eat them)

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Tenzil Kem has entered the thread.

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Indium. The official gum chewn by Metalocalyspse.

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He obviously doesn’t have any metallic fillings. I know this from chewing on aluminum foil as a kid and finding about bimetallic reactions…

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He explains that it has a consistency similar to refrigerated milk duds, but its is tasteless.

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I hope the other 0.005% isn’t mercury.

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Fellow mutants of the germanophone persuasion:

If any of you could find out who adapted Tom Lehrer’s song as Can-can der Elemente and provide me with the source, I would be so immensely relieved, I’ll send you a bottle of my best Sloe Gin. Or a bottle of whisky. Or something else which I can send, legally.

I never chewed Indium in school, but I think we had some. Our chemistry lab was really well stocked. And I liked chemistry. It made sense, in a way other subjects didn’t. So, I was thrilled when I heard someone sing the periodic table to the melody of the Can Can on the radio, and told my teacher about it. I think I even gave her my recording of the program. Which I never got back.

But for the life of me, I could not find out later who sang and played that. I thought it would have been Franz Hohler, but I actually asked him - and his office replied he could not remember ever to have sung this.

My memory is very specific. But I was unable to track the track down.

I cannot listen to any of Lehrer’s or Hohler’s songs without thinking about this. Furthermore, it pops into my mind when I think about the periodic table, cabaret, or school chemistry, and on quite a bit of other occasions.

Ok, maybe I am a bit weird, but I really, really want to listen to that song again and find out who did it. I need the closure. So: anyone?

Please?

ETA: colour me stupid, but is his point here

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that it’s n°49 (like, 49 out of 50, 9/10)? Or 9 out of tin? What?

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Is this it?

(If so, no gifts necessary, I got lucky with 30s of DuckDuckGo-ing)

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And what would it taste like?

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What if you leave it on the bedpost overnight?

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I had no idea there were so many versions…

Does is has to be a Can Can?

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YouTube is another good place to search for obscure songs.

Here’s The Elements in Japanese…

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OK. You wanna impress me? Blow an indium bubble.

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This is pretty likely it! Thank you! I remember it slightly differently, but the Fluor-Chlor-Brom-Bor line stuck in my head for DECADES.

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