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Top Scientific Mnemonics

Memorize these phrases to learn the first eighteen elements – when you are done, make up your own phrases for some of the others.

Happy Henry Likes Beer But Could Not Obtain Four Nuts

That gives us the first 10: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon.

Naughty Magpies Always Sing Perfect Songs Clawing Ants

That gives us the next 8: Sodium (NA), Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Phosphorous, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon

Personally, I prefer Lehrer, but that’s not the elements in order