Metalloid · element 52
Tellurium
Smells of garlic for weeks. Rarer than platinum.
Only 0.9% of people are Tellurium. (estimated)
If you're Tellurium
You are hard to get, hard to forget, and an acquired taste. The people who put up with you get something genuinely rare.
A tiny dose of tellurium gives a person garlic breath for weeks, and the element is rarer in the Earth's crust than platinum.
How to get along with Tellurium
Do
- Accept the acquired taste; it's genuinely rare.
- Keep the dose small and the visits regular.
- Value what only they can do.
Don't
- Don't expect them to be palatable to everyone.
- Don't overdose on their company; the garlic lasts weeks.
When it goes wrong: Too much of them and everyone can tell for a month. Space it out.
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
- 3
- Rarity
- 7
- Warmth
- 4
Tellurium in literature
- St. John Rivers — Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- Mrs. Proudie — Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (1857)
- The Underground Man — Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Tellurium's. If you got Tellurium, one of these was probably your runner-up.