Actinide · element 90
Thorium
Could power the world. Still waiting for its turn.
Only 0.4% of people are Thorium. (estimated)
If you're Thorium
You have enormous potential and you've been patient about it for a very long time. Steady, heavy, and quietly certain your moment will come.
Thorium is three times more common than uranium and could fuel reactors for centuries; it once lit gas lamps as the glowing mantle.
How to get along with Thorium
Do
- Believe in the potential; it's real.
- Give them a long project.
- Be patient; they've been waiting a century.
Don't
- Don't compare them to uranium at dinner.
- Don't promise them the reactor and then build gas lamps.
When it goes wrong: They wait. Decades. Then they light the lamp you forgot about.
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
- 4
- Stability
- 3
- Energy
- 2
- Rarity
- 6
- Warmth
- 5
Thorium in literature
- Merlin — Le Morte d'Arthur, Thomas Malory (1485)
- Ántonia Shimerda — My Ántonia, Willa Cather (1918)
- Utnapishtim — The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous (1800 BCE)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Thorium's. If you got Thorium, one of these was probably your runner-up.
Other actinides
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