Which words can you spell using only element abbreviations from the periodic table?

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Text processing periodic-words
Overview

Periodic Words

Have you ever wondered which words you can spell using only element abbreviations from the periodic table?

Well thanks to this extremely important software I have written, you can set that wonder free.

My daughter came home with this handout

Chemistry is FUN

This proves that in fact Chemistry is FUN. So I replied with this. It's important to engage with your child's teacher.

Chemistry is FARTS

The Chemistry building was a major thoroughfare at my university and I was thinking of all the esters labs that ruined my appetite on the way to lunch.

Still curious, I wrote this command line utility.

Usage

Check a single word:

$ periodic-words -w oversaturation
oversaturation "[Oxygen][Vanadium][Erbium][Sulfur][Astatine][Uranium][Radium][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"

Or you can provide a word list to check. You probably already have one on your system:

$ periodic-words -f /usr/share/dict/words

Here is another source of word lists in a few languages: https://github.com/lorenbrichter/Words

Now I'm sure you're wondering if any of the names of the elements can themselves be written out using the element abbreviations.

silver "[Sulfur][Iodine][Livermorium][Erbium]"
copper "[Carbon][Oxygen][Phosphorus][Phosphorus][Erbium]"
oganesson "[Oxygen][Gallium][Nitrogen][Einsteinium][Sulfur][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
silicon "[Sulfur][Iodine][Lithium][Carbon][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
tin "[Titanium][Nitrogen]"

Carbon and Xenon do it starting with their own element.

carbon "[Carbon][Argon][Boron][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
xenon "[Xenon][Nitrogen][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"

Phosphorous is the only one that refers to itself twice

phosphorus "[Phosphorus][Hydrogen][Oxygen][Sulfur][Phosphorus][Hydrogen][Oxygen][Ruthenium][Sulfur]"

You can check this yourself using the elements-as-a-word-list.txt file in this repo.

If you're writing a Chemistry textbook, I bet you could find a way to use this for each of your chapter titles

Chemistry is brew "[Boron][Rhenium][Tungsten]"
Chemistry is concoction "[Carbon][Oxygen][Nitrogen][Carbon][Oxygen][Carbon][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
Chemistry is dynamite "[Dysprosium][Nitrogen][Americium][Iodine][Tellurium]"
Chemistry is fractionation "[Fluorine][Radium][Carbon][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen][Astatine][Iodine][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
Chemistry is gasses "[Gallium][Sulfur][Sulfur][Einsteinium]"
Chemistry is esterases "[Einsteinium][Tellurium][Radium][Sulfur][Einsteinium]"
Chemistry is pressure "[Phosphorus][Rhenium][Sulfur][Sulfur][Uranium][Rhenium]"
Chemistry is salts "[Sulfur][Aluminium][Tennessine]"
Chemistry is the solution "[Sulfur][Oxygen][Lutetium][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
Chemistry is synthesis "[Sulfur][Yttrium][Nitrogen][Thorium][Einsteinium][Iodine][Sulfur]"
Chemistry is oversaturation "[Oxygen][Vanadium][Erbium][Sulfur][Astatine][Uranium][Radium][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
Chemistry is supersaturate "[Sulfur][Uranium][Phosphorus][Erbium][Sulfur][Astatine][Uranium][Radium][Tellurium]"
Chemistry is alkali "[Aluminium][Potassium][Aluminium][Iodine]"
Chemistry is catalytic "[Carbon][Astatine][Aluminium][Yttrium][Titanium][Carbon]"
Chemistry is cationic "[Carbon][Astatine][Iodine][Oxygen][Nitrogen][Iodine][Carbon]"
Chemistry is calculation "[Carbon][Aluminium][Carbon][Uranium][Lanthanum][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
Chemistry is calibration "[Carbon][Aluminium][Iodine][Boron][Radium][Titanium][Oxygen][Nitrogen]"
Chemistry is carcinogenic "[Carbon][Argon][Carbon][Iodine][Nitrogen][Oxygen][Germanium][Nitrogen][Iodine][Carbon]"
Chemistry is catalysis "[Carbon][Astatine][Aluminium][Yttrium][Sulfur][Iodine][Sulfur]"

Installation

Setup rust and cargo (for example using [rustup]https://rustup.rs/)

Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/jspencer/periodic-words.git && cd periodic-words

Build a release: cargo build --release

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Ain't chemistry a [Molybdenum][Thorium][Erbium][Fluorine][Uranium][Carbon][Potassium][Erbium]

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  • Improve compound generation with dynamic programming

    Improve compound generation with dynamic programming

    Hello, checked out your repo when rustlang retweeted it. Thought it was a cool idea and wanted to help improve it.

    Pros:

    • runs faster with larger inputs O(N) algorithm rather than O(N^2) due to sub-optimal string indexing with line.chars().nth(n)
    • Generates shorter compounds
    • Avoids some allocations at the cost of limiting output to only static string slices

    Cons:

    • Uses more memory (O(N * shortest compound length))
    • because of using dynamic programming, the recurrence relation relies on ascii string indices, limiting the input
    • negligible performance improvement on smaller inputs

    This is the bench mark of running with words_alpha.txt from https://github.com/dwyl/english-words . Both built with cargo build --release

    raze@sol~/P/periodic-words> git branch
  dyn-programming-solution
* main
raze@sol~/P/periodic-words> time target/release/periodic-words -f word-lists/words_alpha.txt

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Executed in    1.04 secs    fish           external
   usr time    1.04 secs  475.00 micros    1.04 secs
   sys time    0.01 secs  115.00 micros    0.00 secs

raze@sol~/P/periodic-words> git checkout dyn-programming-solution 
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raze@sol~/P/periodic-words> cargo build --release
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