Post-transition metal · element 31
Gallium
Melts in your hand. Solid everywhere else.
Only 0.2% of people are Gallium. (estimated)
If you're Gallium
You are firm right up until someone warms you up, and then you flow. Adaptable, surprising, and slightly unsettling to anyone who expected a normal metal.
Gallium melts at 30 °C, so a spoon made of it disappears in a cup of tea.
How to get along with Gallium
Do
- Warm them up slowly; they melt at the right temperature.
- Give them space to be solid and space to flow.
- Enjoy the surprise.
Don't
- Don't hold them too tight; they run through fingers.
- Don't expect the same state twice.
When it goes wrong: Too much heat and they're a puddle. Cool the room and they come back to shape.
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
- 5
- Sociability
- 5
- Stability
- 8
- Energy
- 6
- Rarity
- 5
- Warmth
- 6
Gallium in literature
- Marianne Dashwood — Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1811)
- Mr. Toad — The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1908)
- Werther — The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Gallium's. If you got Gallium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other post-transition metals
AlAluminiumInIndiumSnTinTlThalliumPbLeadBiBismuthPoPoloniumNhNihoniumFlFleroviumMcMoscoviumLvLivermorium