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Thallium.

When William Crookes was 16
He joined a school of chemistry
Graduated and you see -
built a home laboratory.
Promptly married a cutey,
the charming miss Ellen Humphrey,
they had five kids and another three -
stopped and said we're a family.

CHORUS:
Great green spectral line - spirits of rodentine - some things near divine -
Thallium

In 1861 -
he discovered Thallium,
weighed it up to become one
of the Royal Society of London.
When he was 35
Billy Crookes brother died.
He loved him so he cried -
tried to reach him on the other side.

CHORUS:
Great green spectral line - spirits of rodentine - Bill Crookes did define -
Thallium

Cathode rays, Nucleotides,
discoveries known far and wide,
table tilting, ghostly slides,
things that pure science derides.
Made the radiometer,
spintherisope and bird feeder,
to his peers there was naught neater -
so he became their leader.

CHORUS:
Great green spectral line - spirits of rodentine - Bill Crookes did define -
Thallium, Thallium, T - H - A - L - EE - UM, Thallium