Transition metal · element 75
Rhenium
One of the rarest elements. Keeps jet engines together.
Only 0.7% of people are Rhenium. (estimated)
If you're Rhenium
You are almost impossible to find and completely impossible to replace. When things get hot enough to melt everyone else, you're still there.
Rhenium was the last stable element discovered, in 1925, and it lets jet-engine blades survive temperatures above their melting point.
How to get along with Rhenium
Do
- Treat them as irreplaceable; they are.
- Give them the engine-blade jobs.
- Say thank you before you need them again.
Don't
- Don't waste them on trivia.
- Don't expect to find another.
When it goes wrong: They survive above their melting point. If they've failed, look at the engine, not the blade.
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
- 3
- Sociability
- 5
- Stability
- 10
- Energy
- 2
- Rarity
- 8
- Warmth
- 5
Rhenium in literature
- Captain Harville — Persuasion, Jane Austen (1817)
- Marguerite Gautier — The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas fils (1848)
- Guan Yu — Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong (1400)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Rhenium's. If you got Rhenium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other transition metals
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