Transition metal · element 110
Darmstadtium
Named after the city where it was made. Below platinum on the table.
Only <0.1% of people are Darmstadtium. (estimated)
If you're Darmstadtium
You sit under platinum on the chart and nobody has ever seen enough of you to say what you look like. Theoretically precious.
Darmstadtium sits directly below platinum in the table and is expected to be a metal, though only a few atoms have ever existed.
How to get along with Darmstadtium
Do
- Treat them as precious even if you can't see them.
- Sit them under platinum and trust the family.
- Accept theoretical value.
Don't
- Don't demand proof of shine.
- Don't compare them to the gold above.
When it goes wrong: Nobody has seen enough of them to know what went wrong. Assume the table is right.
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
- 2
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 0
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 3
Darmstadtium in literature
- Undershaft — Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw (1905)
- Aglaya Yepanchina — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
- Odette de Crécy — Swann's Way, Marcel Proust (1913)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Darmstadtium's. If you got Darmstadtium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other transition metals
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