Transition metal · element 112
Copernicium
Named after Copernicus. Might be a gas.
Only 0.4% of people are Copernicium. (estimated)
If you're Copernicium
You are named after the man who moved the Earth, and nobody is sure what state you're in. A liquid? A gas? Nobody's had the time to check.
Copernicium is expected to behave like a very heavy, possibly gaseous version of mercury, and it's named after Nicolaus Copernicus.
How to get along with Copernicium
Do
- Accept that nobody knows what state they're in.
- Let them move the Earth quietly.
- Don't check too often.
Don't
- Don't insist on solid or liquid.
- Don't ask them to stay put.
When it goes wrong: Liquid, gas, nobody's sure. Whatever spilled, it's already evaporated.
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
- 2
- Sociability
- 1
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 0
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 3
Copernicium in literature
- Phileas Fogg — Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne (1872)
- Orlando — Orlando, Virginia Woolf (1928)
- Segismundo — Life Is a Dream, Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Copernicium's. If you got Copernicium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other transition metals
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