Actinide · element 101
Mendelevium
Made one atom at a time. Named after the man who built the table.
Only 0.7% of people are Mendelevium. (estimated)
If you're Mendelevium
You are made one at a time, deliberately, and named after the person who saw where you'd fit before you existed. A rare kind of planned.
Mendelevium was first made 17 atoms at a time in 1955 and named after Dmitri Mendeleev, inventor of the periodic table.
How to get along with Mendelevium
Do
- Plan with them; they were planned.
- Make them one at a time, carefully.
- Honour the table they came from.
Don't
- Don't mass-produce them.
- Don't skip the periodic step.
When it goes wrong: They fit exactly where they were predicted to fit. If they don't, check the prediction.
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
- 4
- Sociability
- 2
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 1
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 5
Mendelevium in literature
- Zhuge Liang — Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong (1400)
- Eppie — Silas Marner, George Eliot (1861)
- Mina Harker — Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Mendelevium's. If you got Mendelevium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other actinides
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