Transition metal · element 28
Nickel
In every coin, every magnet, and nobody's top ten.
Only 0.4% of people are Nickel. (estimated)
If you're Nickel
You are more useful than famous and completely fine with that. Solid, steady and hard to wear down, you make other things stronger just by being part of them.
Nickel is what makes stainless steel stainless, and the Earth's core contains more of it than the crust does by far.
How to get along with Nickel
Do
- Value the strength they add to other people.
- Include them by default; they never push in.
- Say the thank-you they never ask for.
Don't
- Don't assume 'unglamorous' means 'unimportant'.
- Don't leave them out of the coin.
When it goes wrong: They wear down slowly and without a word. By the time you notice, the plating is gone.
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
- 6
- Stability
- 9
- Energy
- 5
- Rarity
- 2
- Warmth
- 5
Nickel in literature
- Queequeg — Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1851)
- Charlotte Lucas — Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813)
- Sam Weller — The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (1837)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Nickel's. If you got Nickel, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other transition metals
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