Transition metal · element 111
Roentgenium
Below gold on the table. Named after the man who found X-rays.
Only 2.2% of people are Roentgenium. (estimated)
If you're Roentgenium
You are gold's heavier, stranger cousin: expected to be brilliant, impossible to see, and named after someone who saw through everything.
Roentgenium sits below gold in the table and is named after Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays.
How to get along with Roentgenium
Do
- Expect brilliance you can't quite see.
- Let them see through things.
- Sit them below gold and above the rest.
Don't
- Don't ask for the shine in bulk.
- Don't hide anything; they X-ray it.
When it goes wrong: They see through the excuse before you finish it. Skip the excuse.
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
- 3
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 0
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 5
Roentgenium in literature
- Professor Moriarty — The Final Problem, Arthur Conan Doyle (1893)
- Marguerite Blakeney — The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy (1905)
- Wang Xifeng — Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin (1791)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Roentgenium's. If you got Roentgenium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other transition metals
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