Alkaline earth metal · element 4
Beryllium
Light, stiff, and not to be handled casually.
Only 0.5% of people are Beryllium. (estimated)
If you're Beryllium
You are precise, light on your feet, and a little sharp-edged. People who work with you carefully get something remarkably strong; people who don't get hurt.
Beryllium is used in spacecraft and X-ray windows, and its dust is so toxic that it's machined behind sealed glass.
How to get along with Beryllium
Do
- Be precise with them; vagueness reads as carelessness.
- Give them work that needs to be exactly right.
- Handle disagreements carefully and in private.
Don't
- Don't be casual with their time or their standards.
- Don't grind them down with sloppiness; the dust is toxic to everyone.
When it goes wrong: Mishandled, they cut. Handled with care, they hold up a spacecraft.
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
- 4
- Sociability
- 5
- Stability
- 9
- Energy
- 9
- Rarity
- 5
- Warmth
- 4
Beryllium in literature
- Mycroft Holmes — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
- Mary Crawford — Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (1814)
- Hedda Gabler — Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen (1890)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Beryllium's. If you got Beryllium, one of these was probably your runner-up.