Actinide · element 94
Plutonium
Warm to the touch. Named after a planet that got demoted.
Only <0.1% of people are Plutonium. (estimated)
If you're Plutonium
You give off heat without trying and power things that go very far. Fascinating, unstable, and treated with enormous care by everyone who handles you.
A lump of plutonium is warm to the touch from its own radioactivity, and it powers the Voyager probes leaving the solar system.
How to get along with Plutonium
Do
- Handle with gloves and respect.
- Give them something that goes very far.
- Feel the warmth from a safe distance.
Don't
- Don't stack them too close together.
- Don't treat them casually because they're calm.
When it goes wrong: Too much in one place and you get a chain reaction. Spread the load.
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
- 7
- Sociability
- 4
- Stability
- 1
- Energy
- 1
- Rarity
- 9
- Warmth
- 5
Plutonium in literature
- Raskolnikov — Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
- Salomé — Salomé, Oscar Wilde (1891)
- Kriemhild — Nibelungenlied, Anonymous (1200)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Plutonium's. If you got Plutonium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other actinides
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