Elemental Speller

Small Rust program that tries to spell a word using elements from the period table, as per this /r/dailyprogrammer challenge. Done as an exercise to get more familiar with Rust.

Instructions

1. Make sure you have cargo and rust available.
2. Navigate to the checked out directory and run cargo run word_to_spell.

Example Output

poison -> PoISON (polonium, iodine, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen)
bacon -> BaCoN (barium, cobalt, nitrogen)
sickness -> SiCKNeSS (silicon, carbon, potassium, neon, sulfur, sulfur)
ticklish -> TiCKLiSH (titanium, carbon, potassium, lithium, sulfur, hydrogen)

Thanks to Shepmaster for providing a lot of helpful feedback.