Transition metal · element 45
Rhodium
The most expensive metal on Earth. Doesn't care.
Only 0.4% of people are Rhodium. (estimated)
If you're Rhodium
You are rare, brilliant, and impossible to tarnish. People pay a great deal to have you around, and you barely notice.
Rhodium has cost more per ounce than gold or platinum for years, and most of it ends up in car exhausts.
How to get along with Rhodium
Do
- Treat them as rare, because they are.
- Let them shine without competing.
- Keep the relationship free of tarnish: no petty stuff.
Don't
- Don't try to buy them; the price is already too high.
- Don't confuse brilliance with warmth.
When it goes wrong: They don't react. Whatever you did, it slides off, and so, eventually, do they.
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
- 2
- Sociability
- 5
- Stability
- 10
- Energy
- 3
- Rarity
- 9
- Warmth
- 7
Rhodium in literature
- Cleopatra — Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare (1607)
- Marguerite — The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy (1905)
- Julien Sorel — The Red and the Black, Stendhal (1830)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Rhodium's. If you got Rhodium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other transition metals
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