Twenty-one protons

The David Guetta / Sia hit Titanium has been floating around the internet and our airwaves for about five years now; the first adio broadcasts are just now passing Alpha Centauri. Despite the popularity of the song, its lesser known prequel is hardly ever heard. This may be an accident of economics; not everything can be a hit, especially if it is odd. Or it might just be a sign of the times; unlike Titanium, the prequel came out before Youtube or streaming, and was released on a rather more old-fashioned musical medium known as the 45.  Or, to be more precise, the 44.9559…

You leave it out

And ekaboron holds the space

Nilsen cooked my oxide up

I’m purified, but molten salts are such a waste

Reduced fluorite makes me up

Mendeleev proved nothing removed

Fire assay fire assay

Trivalent, but not the same

As lanthanum or gallium.

You melt me down, strengthen Al

I am the Scandium

Lighter than the yttrium

I am the Scandium

Cut me with

Aluminum increase the strength

Rare earth, the lightest one

Take your choice of ore min’rals to soak me up

Phosphates and uranium.

Mendeleev proved nothing removed

Fire assay fire assay

Trivalent, but not the same

As lanthanum or gallium.

You melt me down, strengthen Al

I am the Scandium

Lighter than the yttrium

I am the Scandium

I am the Scandium

I am the Scandium

One chart, calcium

takes a proton on the run

Scandium oxide makes glass!

You melt me down, strengthen Al

I am the Scandium

Lighter than the Yttrium

I am the Scandium

You melt me down, strengthen Al

I am the Scandium

Lighter than the Yttrium

I am the Scandium

I am the Scandium!