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…
Thorium is also a Chromium-based browser
Ah right, forgot about that one
I play Minecraft.
a lot.
here’s a list of all the Minecraft mods which have element names, with a !! next to ones you have nothing for
Note that these mods have nothing to do with the element itself, they do not add any chemicals to Minecraft, but are simply named like that.
If I were to include mods that added the element and were called like that, it would cover 75% of the table
Hydrogen
https://modrinth.com/mod/hydrogen
Lithium
https://modrinth.com/mod/lithium
Fluorine
https://modrinth.com/mod/fluorine_y
Nitrogen
https://modrinth.com/mod/nitrogen_rbn
Neon
Sodium
https://modrinth.com/mod/sodium
Phosphor
https://modrinth.com/mod/phosphor
Argon
https://modrinth.com/mod/argonmod
Calcium
https://modrinth.com/mod/calcium-fps
Scandium
https://modrinth.com/mod/scandium
Titanium (there’s actually 2)
https://modrinth.com/mod/titanium
https://modrinth.com/mod/titaniumod
Vanadium
https://modrinth.com/mod/vanadium
Cobalt
https://modrinth.com/mod/cobalt
Niobium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/niobium
Palladium
https://modrinth.com/mod/mpalladium
Rubidium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/rubidium/versions
Yttrium
https://modrinth.com/mod/yttrium
Indium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/indium
Neodymium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/nd1710
Xenon
https://modrinth.com/mod/xenon-forge
Osmium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/osmium
Mercury
https://modrinth.com/mod/mercuryium
Bismuth
https://modrinth.com/mod/bismuth-2
Radon !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/radon
Francium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/francium-optimization
Radium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/radium
Thorium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/thorium
Uranium
https://modrinth.com/mod/uranium_mod
Plutonium
https://modrinth.com/mod/beta-plutonium
Mendelevium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/mendelevium
Fermium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/fermiumbooter
Seaborgium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/seaborgium
Meitmerium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/meitnerium
Flerovium !!
https://modrinth.com/mod/flerovium
other software that you have not found anything for
Iridium browser (chrome fork with privacy in mind)
other software that is so cool it’s worth a mention
Iodine (VPN over DNS requests, not a vpn over port 53, actually encoding traffic in a dns request, in some cases can get you connection even before logging in a captive portal and paying, like in hotels/planes) https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
Here is osmium, a framework and tool to work with OpenStreetMap data.
77 - Iridium is a satellite communications company.
And more! Was surprised no one had taken that one so I looked.
C’mon OP! Get on our level!
(This list is seriously impressive, much love OP.)
How to say you have adhd without saying it.
I’ve got Asperger’s (pronounced “asburgers”, not “aspurrgers”), not ADHD!
There’s definitely a lot of shared symptoms between the two. My wife is like you while I have garden variety ADHD, and sometimes I question whether I might be autistic too (I’m not).
Whatever, it’s normies who are supposed to be sorting us out. You know that only normies themselves are standartizeable, we are just being ourselves, - non-normies.
I’ll surely name something after an element if applicable, but the onec I was considering in the past turned out to be occupied already.
Iridium is the name of the OG satellite phone network
Also used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators
Guys, please don’t call anything after Zirconium or Niobium. We need the names for the future Russian hacker groups Snugly Bear and Hugging Bear.
On a more serious note, someone is developing an operating system codenamed Boron.
For Xenon - Intel integrated graphics for budget segment were branded as Intel (Iris) Xe.
That’s one great copypasta. Idk when one should post it tho. Any ideas?
84 - Po - Polonium - Polish government system for information about higher education and science (POL-on) - https://polon.nauka.gov.pl/en/
86 - Rn - Radonium - Reporting system based on information collected in POL-on and other polish sources about science in Poland - https://radon.nauka.gov.pl/
huh, who knew. I really ran out of steam after technetium
Well, I forgot to mention I am truly impressed by your list.
POL-on and RAD-on are quite specialized pieces of software that even in Poland aren’t known very well. And the names come from polish words without “-ium”, so they could not not pop up in english search results. Surely there are more niche pieces neither of us stand a chance to find easily
I’m am very surprised there isn’t a ruby based compiled language called zirconium.
Although not public, I use a rubidium.pl script I wrote at work to interact with a bunch of rubidium clocks.
Rubidium is a pretty cool element. Completely chill.
Might be worth making a list on wikidata.
Cadmium needs to be CAD software. Unfortunately I’m not a CAD expert so I can’t help.
Good, I was too lazy to elgoog and trusted OP’s research too much it seems
Interestingly enough, there’s already CAD software called Argon, Cobalt, and Antimony (there could be more, but I didn’t dig too deep). Cadmium would be a fourth element with CAD software named after it. Maybe someone will fork FreeCAD and call it Cadmium…
Good idea. Or port it to Rust and call it Ferrum just to fuck with people who know about Argon, Cobalt and Antimony and would expect the next one to be called Cadmium.
Yes I’m aware that’s not feasible, just joking.
we need more open-source software named after the elements!
Earth wind & fire!
Better go back and check some of those unchecked elements, because I’m only counting 53 of the elements being the namesake for something, so your title of “most of the elements” is incorrect.
j/k, fun list
fixed the title. Making the list was no fun at all, half of the stuff I saw were weird crypto and AI companies.
