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The song in the video below was written by Science Groove for the April 2001 meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. The "percussion" in the song consists of actual sounds generated by a 1.5-Tesla NMR machine.
Video posted by Greg Crowther
The chorus (which you'll now be singing all day, sorry!) :
There's 15N, 39K, 19F, and also 13C,
But of all the atoms East to West, the nucleus I like best is 31P.
Proton spins are everywhere, and MRIs reveal their density.
But all that leaves me unimpressed; the nucleus I like best is 31P.
31P (Phosphorus-31 NMR) is used in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging to study biological membranes in native conditions. It also -- as the song says -- let's you "find the rates of using and creating ATP."
Check out the complete lyrics at Greg Crowther's Web page
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