Halogen · element 117
Tennessine
Named after a US state. The second-heaviest known element.
Only 0.6% of people are Tennessine. (estimated)
If you're Tennessine
You are almost the heaviest thing there is, made by combining two things that were already extremely rare. Nobody has seen you and everyone is impressed.
Tennessine was made by firing calcium at berkelium; it's named after Tennessee, home of the Oak Ridge lab that supplied the target.
How to get along with Tennessine
Do
- Combine rare with rare and see what happens.
- Be impressed without seeing.
- Respect the weight.
Don't
- Don't expect a visible sample.
- Don't ask what they look like.
When it goes wrong: Two very rare things collided. Nobody saw it, everyone was impressed. Same here.
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
- 6
- Sociability
- 2
- Stability
- 0
- Energy
- 0
- Rarity
- 10
- Warmth
- 3
Tennessine in literature
- Louisa Gradgrind — Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1854)
- Chingachgook — The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
- Draupadi — Mahabharata, Vyasa (400 BCE)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Tennessine's. If you got Tennessine, one of these was probably your runner-up.