Can We Guess the Periodic Element That Best Matches Your Personality?

About This Quiz

The periodic table is one of the most familiar charts in the world. Whatever language you read, if you know the Roman alphabet then you can use it to identify the elements and place them in their groups. The shape of it is rather intrinsic to the properties of the elements, as they are arranged not just in order of their chemical weight but also in columns that keep them with those that are like them, for instance they have the same number of electrons in their outermost shell. On the far right, you can see a group called the noble gases, such as neon, xenon and radon. These ones don't react to anything much. On the far left you can see the alkali metals, such as lithium, potassium, etc. These are soft and shiny at room temperature and they hate water. The layout also conveniently organizes the metal and nonmetal elements. Things also get more and more radioactive as you keep going; the most recently-added elements are mostly artificially made and are incredibly radioactive, meaning they decay quickly and it is very hard to get your hands on them.

The elements are mostly easily learned by memorizing Tom Lehrer's "Song of the Elements", in which he set all of those known at the time to the tune of "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General". Being able to sing this song is also a fun party trick! Still, however many you know, there is probably one that is most like you. Let's find it!