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Chapter: Chunk 10 — Actinides (90–103)

acoustic, folk, soulful, warm · 3:56

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Ninety, Thorium, Th, heavy hammer in the dust,
Thor's pa riding shotgun, that's Pa, ninety-one, thrust—
Protactinium glowing like a torch nobody trusts,
Ninety-two we hit Uranium, U, the planet rust.
Uranus in the rearview, cold rings, colder crust,
Engine screaming through the dark, low synth pulse and gust.

[Chorus]
Thor and his Pa flying past Uranus,
Ninety-two, nine-three, Neptune's the flavor,
Ninety-four touch down, Pluto for the payoff,
Actinides stacking, ninety through one-oh-three, savor.
Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu — say it slow and heavy,
Curie waiting Berkeley-side, California ready.

[Verse 2]
Nine-three, Neptunium, Np, planet number eight,
Ninety-four, Plutonium, Pu, the dwarf that sealed the fate.
Order match the heavens — that's the code we calibrate,
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, ninety-two through ninety-eight — nah,
ninety-four's the cutoff, then we landed on the map,
Ninety-five, Americium, Am, continental slap.
Touch down in America, dust settling on the gap,
Marie Curie's silhouette waiting, arms crossed, no small talk.

[Chorus]
Thor and his Pa flying past Uranus,
Ninety-two, nine-three, Neptune's the flavor,
Ninety-four touch down, Pluto for the payoff,
Actinides stacking, ninety through one-oh-three, savor.
Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu — say it slow and heavy,
Curie waiting Berkeley-side, California ready.

[Verse 3]
Ninety-six, Curium, Cm, named right after her,
Radium's widow got two elements, that's the blur.
Ninety-seven, Berkelium, Bk, the city where she stirred,
Ninety-eight, Californium, Cf, the whole coast concurred.
Lab coats in the fog, cyclotron humming low,
Bombarding heavy metal till the numbers start to grow.

[Bridge]
Ninety-nine, Einsteinium, Es, relativity's ghost,
One hundred, Fermium, Fm, the reactor's toast.
Two geniuses collide inside a party thrown for host —
Curium's kitchen, atomic smoke, they pour it, no boast.

[Verse 4]
One-oh-one, Mendelevium, Md, the table's own architect,
Rows and columns predicting elements he'd never detect.
One-oh-two, Nobelium, No, dynamite intellect,
One-oh-three, Lawrencium, Lr, cyclotron's own reflect.
Ernest Lawrence built the machine that split the scene wide,
Five names toasting in Berkeley while the desert stays dry.

[Chorus]
Thor and his Pa flying past Uranus,
Ninety-two, nine-three, Neptune's the flavor,
Ninety-four touch down, Pluto for the payoff,
Actinides stacking, ninety through one-oh-three, savor.
Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu — say it slow and heavy,
Curie waiting Berkeley-side, California ready.

[Outro]
Ninety to one-oh-three, the story never fades,
Thorium to Lawrencium, fourteen names, one parade.
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto — the order never breaks,
Berkeley party winding down while the low synth shakes.

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