Chromium Info Poem

Chromium, Chromiuim, Chromium,
Oh my oh my, sweet Chromium
What did Nicolas Louis Vauquelin say when he first discovered you?
Did he know that you were going to have 24 protons and exactly 24 electrons?
Or even 28 neutrons…
No?
So how did the world figure you all out?
Was it because you were such a beautiful silvery transition metal?
Or maybe it was your mesmerizing amount of atomic mass…
Ya’ know, it being 51.996.

Are other elements attracted to you because you are simply,
Odorless, tasteless, and malleable.
Or maybe it’s because you’re used in cars and bikes.
Bikes and cars attract the lady elements huh?
Not as much as rubies and emerald stones.
That’s what you were traced in…
Did you know you left some of your clothes there?
‘Cause that vile Magnesium took them with her.

I heard you broke up with lead, is it true?
1781, by that dreadful precipitation with hydrochloric acid?
Wow, I’m sorry to hear that.
I wish it was something I could do,
But I’m not an element so I’m gonna leave that up to you.

You’re so beautiful
I wonder why lead left you.
You were named after “Chroma” that’s Greek if ya didn’t know;
Meaning color because you can form a variety of colorful
Compounds.

Chromium, Chromium, Chromium
My sweet Chromium
Oh how adore your beauty
But dear my sweet Chromium,
I do not like you for your amount of neutrons, protons, electrons, or even atomic mass…
I do not like you simply because you are odorless
I do not like you only because you are a solid
I do not like you for the fact that you are usually
As green as a sour apple;
As yellow as our eyes perceive the sun to be;
As red as sheered Mabeline lipstick;
Nor as orange as a super round orange straight from Metro Café.

It is simply because you are just a plain ole
Transitional Metal.