Song Parodies -> Alkanes
| Original Song Title: | "Cocaine" |
| Original Performer: | Eric Clapton |
| Parody Song Title: | "Alkanes" |
| Parody Written by: | Phil Alexander |
The idea for this came while writing the Decathlon science entry: very simple, a bit obvious, but chemically accurate. The final two choruses don't scan properly, but you can sing the extra syllable without too much grief
The lightest of them all
Is simply CH4
Methane
And the next one you see
Is CH3CH3
Ethane
CH3
CH2
CH3
Propane
To make it longer, you
Just insert CH2
Butane
Add another one
That chain is getting long
Pentane
CH3
(CH2)4
CH3
Hexane
CH3
(CH2)n
CH3
Alkane
Is simply CH4
Methane
And the next one you see
Is CH3CH3
Ethane
CH3
CH2
CH3
Propane
To make it longer, you
Just insert CH2
Butane
Add another one
That chain is getting long
Pentane
CH3
(CH2)4
CH3
Hexane
CH3
(CH2)n
CH3
Alkane
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{in my best Hank Hill voice} Dang it, Phil, don't be makin' fun of sweet lady propane.
{in my best Dale Gribble voice} Phil, it's good to meet somebody else who realizes that the enantiomers of the lipophilic pesticides -- trans-chlordane, cis-chlordane and heptachlor -- are separated using an alkane mobile phase.
science made fun....dug it
This was a gas.
Chemists do it with substance. Boiling point 555 K.
Please Sir Phil, don't even remind this NorCAL lass, of High school CHEM class !!
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