Post-transition metal · element 114
Flerovium
Named after a Russian physicist. Might act like a noble gas.
Only 0.8% of people are Flerovium. (estimated)
If you're Flerovium
You sit with the metals but behave like the gases. Nobody can quite categorise you, and the more they look the less sure they get.
Flerovium sits below lead but may behave like a noble gas; it's named after Georgy Flyorov, founder of the Dubna laboratory.
How to get along with Flerovium
Do
- Stop trying to categorise them.
- Sit with the ambiguity.
- Let them be a metal that acts like a gas.
Don't
- Don't insist on the box.
- Don't expect the neighbours to explain them.
When it goes wrong: The more you look, the less sure you get. Stop looking; start listening.
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
- 1
- Sociability
- 2
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 0
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 3
Flerovium in literature
- Bazarov — Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (1862)
- Nina Zarechnaya — The Seagull, Anton Chekhov (1896)
- Pechorin — A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Flerovium's. If you got Flerovium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other post-transition metals
AlAluminiumGaGalliumInIndiumSnTinTlThalliumPbLeadBiBismuthPoPoloniumNhNihoniumMcMoscoviumLvLivermorium