Metals, Nonmetals, and Chemical Reactions

Stomp, stomp, clap. Stomp, stomp,

clap. Physical is how it looks. But that ain't enough.

Chemical is how it acts. Yeah, it's getting tough. We talking reaction.

We talking new substances. Brain and beats, let's break the code.

Mix it with oxygen, burn it in the flame. Metals and non-metals,

they don't play the same. Take a metal like magnesium, watch it glow.

It makes a basic oxide, yeah, you know. Dip the paper

in. It turns a red litmus blue. That's what the metal oxides do.