Post-transition metal · element 13
Aluminium
Light, useful, and in every kitchen on Earth.
Only 0.5% of people are Aluminium. (estimated)
If you're Aluminium
You fit in anywhere and get things done without fuss. Nobody calls you dramatic; everybody calls you when something needs to actually work.
Aluminium was once more precious than gold. Napoleon III served his most important guests on aluminium plates.
How to get along with Aluminium
Do
- Ask for practical help; they love being useful.
- Keep the drama low; they don't corrode but they do notice.
- Include them in everything; they fit anywhere.
Don't
- Don't underrate them because they're everywhere.
- Don't try to make them precious; they'd rather be used.
When it goes wrong: They don't blow up, they get quietly bent out of shape. Straighten things out early.
Atomic profile
Every element is placed on six personality dimensions derived from its chemistry. Your answers are placed on the same six, and the closest element wins. How the scoring works
- Reactivity
- 5
- Sociability
- 6
- Stability
- 9
- Energy
- 8
- Rarity
- 1
- Warmth
- 5
Aluminium in literature
- Passepartout — Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne (1872)
- Diana Barry — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1908)
- Mole — The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Aluminium's. If you got Aluminium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other post-transition metals
GaGalliumInIndiumSnTinTlThalliumPbLeadBiBismuthPoPoloniumNhNihoniumFlFleroviumMcMoscoviumLvLivermorium