Lanthanide · element 71
Lutetium
Last of the rare earths. Hardest, densest, most expensive.
Only 0.3% of people are Lutetium. (estimated)
If you're Lutetium
You are the last one in and the hardest to move. Dense, valuable, and a little intimidating in your own quiet way.
Lutetium is the hardest and densest rare earth, and one of its isotopes dates meteorites older than the Earth.
How to get along with Lutetium
Do
- Respect the density; they're the last and hardest.
- Give them the oldest, slowest problems.
- Let them be a little intimidating.
Don't
- Don't rush them.
- Don't take the price as vanity.
When it goes wrong: They don't move. If something moved them, remember it; it was historic.
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
- 10
- Energy
- 3
- Rarity
- 7
- Warmth
- 5
Lutetium in literature
- Admiral Croft — Persuasion, Jane Austen (1817)
- Mrs. Thornton — North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
- Priam — The Iliad, Homer (750 BCE)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Lutetium's. If you got Lutetium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other lanthanides
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