Post-transition metal · element 83
Bismuth
Rainbow crystals. Barely radioactive over a billion billion years.
Only 2.1% of people are Bismuth. (estimated)
If you're Bismuth
You are colourful, gentle and almost impossibly patient. You take your time about everything, including decay, and you look good doing it.
Bismuth grows staircase-shaped rainbow crystals and has a half-life a billion times the age of the universe.
How to get along with Bismuth
Do
- Give them time; they take it anyway.
- Admire the rainbow crystals; they grew them slowly.
- Enjoy the patience.
Don't
- Don't rush the decay; it takes longer than the universe.
- Don't mistake gentle for weak.
When it goes wrong: They break down over a billion billion years. Whatever this is, it will pass first.
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
- 3
- Sociability
- 5
- Stability
- 9
- Energy
- 1
- Rarity
- 5
- Warmth
- 7
Bismuth in literature
- Dr. Pangloss — Candide, Voltaire (1759)
- Miss Pole — Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
- Mr. Wardle — The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (1837)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Bismuth's. If you got Bismuth, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other post-transition metals
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