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edit: many, not most

Based on a few quick searches, here's what I came up with. You can tell that I got pretty bored once I got to the Lanthanide series and beyond. The ones without ":" are the ones I didn't check, as I doubt there's any software called "Dysprosium" and "Roentgenium", but I would love to be proven wrong!

One thing of note, I included a few racehorses are named after elements (most of which from the 1800s, which is interesting)

1 - H - Hydrogen: open-source drum machine

2 - He - Helium: Chromium-based browser, "Helium10" is e-commerce software

3 - Li - Lithium: "Li3", formerly "lithium", is a PHP web framework, optimization mod for Minecraft

4 - Be - Beryllium: proprietary lathe software written in Python

5 - B - Boron: N/A?

6 - C - Carbon: C-based API developed by Apple to port classic Mac apps to MacOS X, programming language developed by Google to be interoperable with C++, "Karbon" is some accounting management software

7 - N - Nitrogen: Financial planning software (previously "Riskalyze"). Funnily enough, there is also a racehorse called "Nitrogen" which, according to Wikipedia, was the 2024 "Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly"!

8 - O - Oxygen: default font in KDE, "OxygenOS" is the skin of Android in (global) OnePlus phones. "Oxygen XML editor" is self-explanatory. Again, there is a racehorse called "Oxygen" which Wikipedia says was regarded as the "leading two-year-old filly in the South of England in 1830"!

9 - F - Fluorine: some productivity app

10 - Ne - Neon: game engine, music visualisation software, "KDE Neon" is a distro developed by KDE

11 - Na - Sodium: Minecraft optimization mod, MMO game for PS3, and interestingly enough, another racehorse!

12 - Mg - Magnesium: port of the "Sodium" Minecraft optimization mod for Forge

13 - Al - Aluminium: Google's "Aluminium OS" (replacement for ChromeOS), various software designed for manufacturing/designing aluminium parts

14 - Si - Silicon: "Silicon IDE" is self explanatory, "Silicon Labs" is a Japanese technology company, Apple's processors are known as "Apple Silicon", you of course have "Silicon Valley"

15 - P - Phosphorus: some IoT enterprise solution. This is also yet another racehorse, which won the 1837 Epsom Derby despite having a leg injury!

16 - S - Sulfur/Sulphur: a modern old-school action-adventure game, codename for Fedora 9. "Sulphur Nimbus: Hel's Elixir" is a game on itch.io where you control a hippogriff, interesting!

17 - Cl - Chlorine: library to interact with OpenCL devices

18 - Ar - Argon: CAD modelling software, tool for developing Roblox games. "Argon2" is a cryptographic key derivation function that won the 2015 Password Hashing Competition

19 - K - Potassium: "Kalium" (where we get the symbol "K" from!) is the name of a web framework that handle asynchronous microservices

20 - Ca - Calcium: digital health software, web calendar by "Brown Bear Software"

21 - Sc - Scandium: Automation tool for software testing. One thing of note, a company called "Element 21" (a golf and fishing equipment company) paid the Russian Federal Space Agency to launch a golf ball into space!

22 - Ti - Titanium: Sophisticated malware discovered in 2019 by Kaspersky Lab. "Titanium SDK" is used to develop native Android and iOS apps using JavaScript.

23 - V - Vanadium: Browser developed by the GrapheneOS team

24 - Cr - Chromium: The backbone of all the modern browsers, aside from Firefox and its forks, OpenGL implementation

25 - Mn - Manganese: Codename for Windows 10 20H2 apparently?

26 - Fe - Iron: C# library company (they have a suite of .NET apps prefixed with "Iron"), "IronFox" is a privacy-focused Android browser

27 - Co - Cobalt: codename for v6.0 of PalmOS, action side-scrolling game developed by Mojang, CAD modelling program

28 - Ni - Nickel: some payment processor

29 - Cu - Copper: some web-based project management tool

30 - Zn - Zinc: "Zinc Application Platform" is used for creating GUI apps. "OpenZinc" is a project to preserve v1.0 to v4.2 of the former. It's also ANOTHER racehorse!

31 - Ga - Gallium: "Gallium3D" is a set of open-source graphics drivers that is part of the Mesa library of graphics drivers. "GalliumOS" is a discontinued OS targeting Chromebooks

32 - Ge - Germanium: Codename for Windows 11 24H2

33 - As - Arsenic: audience response system (whatever that is?), some online gaming website

34 - Se - Selenium: software testing framework

35 - Br - Bromine: codename for Windows 11 26H2 (an apt name, it sounds very smelly with lots of AI "features"...). "Bromite", the Chromium-based browser, is pretty close but is an ion containing bromine (BrO2-)

36 - Kr - Krypton: a programming language

37 - Rb - Rubidium: N/A?

38 - Sr - Strontium: Russian hacker group "Fancy Bear" is sometimes called "STRONTIUM"

39 - Y - Yttrium: Russian hacker group "Cozy Bear" is sometimes called "YTTRIUM"

40 - Zr - Zirconium: N/A?

41 - Nb - Niobium: N/A?

42 - Mo - Molybdenum: N/A?

43 - Tc - Technetium: N/A?

44 - Ru - Ruthenium: N/A?

45 - Rh - Rhodium: N/A?

46 - Pd - Palladium: A 1958 CIA program to study and interfere Soviet radar (yes really)

47 - Ag - Silver: 2nd gen Pokemon game, various video game characters named Silver

48 - Cd - Cadmium: N/A?

49 - In - Indium: N/A?

50 - Sn - Tin: newsreader software

51 - Sb - Antimony: CAD software

52 - Te - Tellurium: some Python package about biology stuff idk

53 - I - Iodine: some AI software used in hospitals, idk

54 - Xe - Xenon: Dutch software used in 6 countries to find tax evaders (yes really), codename for Xbox 360

55 - Cs - Caesium/Cesium: library specialising in "3D geospatial visualisation" (i.e. globes)

56 - Ba - Barium: N/A?

57 - La - Lanthanum: N/A?

58 - Ce - Cerium
59 - Pr - Praseodymium
60 - Nd - Neodymium
61 - Pm - Promethium
62 - Sm - Samarium
63 - Eu - Europium
64 - Gd - Gadolinium
65 - Tb - Terbium
66 - Dy - Dysprosium
67 - Ho - Holmium
68 - Er - Erbium
69 - Tm - Thulium
70 - Yb - Ytterbium
71 - Lu - Lutetium
72 - Hf - Hafnium
73 - Ta - Tantalum

74 - W - Tungsten: "WolframAlpha" is a supercharged version of the calculator ("Wolfram" is where we get the W!), "Wolfram Language" is used in the computing program "Wolfram Mathematica"

75 - Re - Rhenium

76 - Os - Osmium: Tool for working with OpenStreetMap data

77 - Ir - Iridium: satellite company

78 - Pt - Platinum: 4th gen pokemon game

79 - Au - Gold: 2nd gen Pokemon game and its protagonist

80 - Hg - Mercury: software developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre to analyze crystal structures

81 - Tl - Thallium

82 - Pb - Lead: N/A?

83 - Bi - Bismuth: programming language, tiling windows add-on for KDE Plasma

84 - Po - Polonium: N/A?

85 - At - Astatine
86 - Rn - Radon
87 - Fr - Francium
88 - Ra - Radium 89 - Ac - Actinium

90 - Th - Thorium: Chromium-based browser

91 - Pa - Protactinium

92 - U - Uranium: backup software

93 - Np - Neptunium: N/A?

94 - Pu - Plutonium: Call of Duty mod

95 - Am - Americium
96 - Cm - Curium
97 - Bk - Berkelium
98 - Cf - Californium
99 - Es - Einsteinium
100 - Fm - Fermium

101 - Md - Mendelevium: N/A?

102 - No - Nobelium
103 - Lr - Lawrencium
104 - Rf - Rutherfordium
105 - Db - Dubnium
106 - Sg - Seaborgium 107 - Bh - Bohrium
108 - Hs - Hassium
109 - Mt - Meitnerium
110 - Ds - Darmstadtium
111 - Rg - Roentgenium
112 - Cn - Copernicium
113 - Nh - Nihonium
114 - Fl - Flerovium
115 - Mc - Moscovium
116 - Lv - Livermorium
117 - Ts - Tennessine

118 - Og - Oganesson: free open-source cache deleter? Weird

Is this the right community to post this in? It's not really a meme, but it's not very serious either...

Now I need to get back to doing chemistry homework...

Would you rather know every language, but switch to a random one after each sentence, or after each year (unable to speak a different language until the following year)?

Give your answers for the following cases:

• All languages are treated equally (so equal chance for any of them to be switched to)
• Languages are weighted based on number of first-language/native speakers (so Chinese is most likely, then English, etc.)
• Languages are weighted based on number of non-first-language/non-native speakers (so English would be most likely)

edit: "Balkanised" is probably the right word, partition means to divide territory between two other states. If the US did break apart in pieces (probably in some sort of dystopian/everyone is going to die world), i wonder if other countries will try to nab bits of it (e.g. Britain regaining their colonies, Mexico regaining their lost territories, Spain regaining Florida, or even Russia taking over Alaska)

note: I am not advocating for the partition of the US, it's just fun to think about new countries! Also, I'm not American and have never been there so I have no clue about the different cultures in the different states.

If the US broke up into multiple pieces in some way or another, what new countries would you want to appear? (with and without considering for the feasibility of such new countries) What would their relations be like with each other and with other countries?

Personally, I would think New York (the city) becoming an independent microstate would be kind of cool, like the Vatican City of the stock market. The idea of "Cascadia" (which, to my knowledge, includes California, Oregon, and one other I forgot the name of. I think a bit of Canada too. The west coast, right?) could be realised, and with California, they would have a very beefy economy, as well as Silicon Valley. An independent Alaskan state could also be interesting, especially since they have a cool flag. Same goes for Texas.

Since forces can merge into one at very high energies (e.g. electroweak is the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force, GUT is a hypothetical unification of electromagnetism, weak, and strong force), could one of the fundamental forces split into multiple forces at very low energies (like how the electroweak force split into electromagnetism and the weak force as the universe cooled down)? I assume not, since there have been experiments done very close to absolute zero and there aren't any big news about new forces being discovered.

Also, could it be possible that a hidden fifth fundamental force exists in the universe? If it existed, how would we detect it? How many fundamental forces could exist in the universe? Which of the four fundamental forces most closely align with "the Force" from Star Wars? Why is gravity "incompatible" with quantum mechanics? Why were the weak force and strong force so uncreatively named? Why are "W" and "Z" bosons called the way they are? Why not something like "weak boson" and "zero boson", why the letters? Why is the graviton so difficult to detect when we have already found gravitational waves?