Elemental Tales (Pg. 3 of 5)

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This is Page 3 of my Elemental Tales characters.

I have a very specific plan for my Elemental Tales series when it comes to the skin colors and genders of the characters. For the skin colors, out of 120 characters that will be in this series altogether, 42 of them will have dark-brown skin, 39 of them will have medium-brown skin, and 39 of them will have pale skin. The reason that I have 42 characters in the dark-brown skin category is that 2 of the characters in this category are NOT on the periodic table: Deuterium and Tritium. They're not on the table because they're not elements, they're isotopes (isotopes of hydrogen). In my series, they are the younger siblings of Hydrogen. So since they're the siblings of Hydrogen, they have the same skin color as her. If you only count the 118 characters that ARE on the periodic table, then there will be 40 characters with dark-brown skin, 39 characters with medium-brown skin, and 39 characters will pale skin. (Sulfur is the only exception so far from these three skin-color groups.....although I put him in the pale category, he actually has orange-ish suntanned skin.)

As for gender, there will be exactly 60 males and 60 females.

Alright, then, here are the character bios for Pg. 3:

NEON
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: Ne
Atomic Number: 10
Atomic Mass: 20.180
Element Category: Noble gas
Neon is a sweet, bright, and spunky girl. She's very noticeable because of her bright, fiery, crimson red emission spectrum color. But she's rather shy, too....just like her other noble gas friends, she rarely interacts with the other elements. Her favorite activity is making neon signs with her noble gas friends. She's also involved in making vacuum tubes, high-voltage indicators, lightning arrestors, wave meter tubes, and television tubes. Liquefied neon can be commercially used as a cryogenic refrigerant. Neon also teams up with Helium to make helium-neon lasers.

Physical Appearance Info:
Neon has a reddish-orange color scheme because that's the color of neon gas in a high-voltage discharge tube.

OSMIUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Os
Atomic Number: 76
Atomic Mass: 190.23
Element Category: Transition metal, noble metal, precious metal, platinum group metal
There are many groups and families in the periodic table, but I particularly like the idea of Platinum having his own group....his own little entourage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum… . Osmium is one of the members of the platinum group metals, so he's a loyal friend of Platinum. But he's also friends with Gold and Silver, too, since he's also a noble/precious metal. Osmium is very suave, gentlemanly, and handsome, just like the other two noble metal males, Silver and Platinum. He's also a hard-nosed, serious individual, because he's a hard, brittle, bluish-gray metal, and the densest naturally occurring element. His favorite activity is making anything where extreme durability and hardness are needed, such as the tips of fountain pens, instrument pivots, and electrical contacts.

Physical Appearance Info:
The element osmium is a dark bluish-gray metal, so I put that color in Osmium's eyes and pants. His hair and vest are a shiny light-gray color with bluish specks in them, made to resemble real-life osmium crystals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Osm… .

PALLADIUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: Pd
Atomic Number: 46
Atomic Mass: 106.42
Element Category: Transition metal, noble metal, precious metal, platinum group metal
Palladium is a very sweet and beautiful, lustrous silvery-white metal. Besides being a noble/precious metal, she's also a loyal member of Platinum's group, the platinum group metals. She loves making jewelry and transverse flutes (side-blown flutes). She knows how to play transverse flutes very well, too. She's also involved in catalytic converters, multilayer ceramic capacitors, dentistry, making watches, making blood sugar test strips, making aircraft spark plugs, making platinum prints, and making surgical instruments.
She is ridiculously in love with the handsome and serious Osmium, another platinum group member. She and Osmium are often seen together, working on noble/precious metal experiments in the lab, or making jewelry with their other noble/precious metal friends....or just being alone together, cuddling and being romantic with each other.

Physical Appearance Info:
The element palladium is a light silvery-white color, so her color scheme is made up of mostly that color (in her hair, eyes, eyebrows, and most of her clothes).

ALUMINUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Al
Atomic Number: 13
Atomic Mass: 26.982
Element Category: Post-transition metal
Aluminum is a very cutesy, happy, popular, and highly energetic kid. He's very rarely alone...he's always hanging out with his many element friends. He's a very big advocate of recycling. He's so versatile and multi-talented, useful for so many things in the world. Some of the multitude of things he's involved in making are aluminum foil, aluminum cans, automobiles, aircraft, trucks, railway cars, marine vessels, bicycles, windows, doors, siding, cooking utensils, baseball bats, watches, street lighting poles, sailing ship masts, walking poles, outer shells of consumer electronics, and sooooooo much more! A very long time ago (the 1800's), his atoms were very rare to find....therefore, he got to be in the Precious Metals club. He used to wear a suit and act like a proper gentleman like the other Precious Metal males do, and he was even more valuable than Gold! (Gold was not pleased with this.) But he doesn't dress formally anymore, because he's not in the Precious Metals club anymore, because his atoms are very common to find now. (And Gold was not sad at all to see him go.)

Physical Appearance Info:
The element aluminum is a light silvery-gray color, so his color scheme is made up of mostly that color (in his hair, eyes, eyebrows, long-sleeved shirt, and sneakers).

FLUORINE
Age:  Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender:  Female
Element Symbol:  F
Atomic Number:  9
Atomic Mass:  18.998
Element Category:  Halogen
Fluorine may look cute on the outside, but watch out, she has a really bad temper.  She's extremely feisty and aggressive.  In fact, she is one of the angriest, most violent, and most dangerous elements in the periodic table.  Great care is required to handle and deal with her because she's extremely reactive and poisonous.  Her fluorine gas power is extremely dangerous and corrosive...she can set wood and even water on fire by just spraying them with her gas, without the need for a spark.  She can team up with Hydrogen to make another very toxic chemical, hydrogen fluoride (HF).  As toxic as her personality is, she actually loves to smile a lot.  She loves teeth very much, and loves to show off her shiny, clean, pearly whites to everyone.  Her fluoride ions are the chief ingredient in toothpaste (sodium fluoride), and are very good at taking care of people's teeth, protecting them from tooth decay.  She loves her halogen friends very much.  But she also has a crush on alkali metal Sodium, and often gets jealous of her halogen friend Chlorine for being Sodium's girlfriend.

Physical Appearance Info:
Fluorine's color scheme is mostly yellow, because fluorine gas is a light, pale yellow color, and liquid fluorine is a bright yellow color.  Her shorts are white and have wide, pointy hips...it was designed to look like a tooth.

SODIUM
Age:  Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender:  Male
Element Symbol:  Na
Atomic Number:  11
Atomic Mass:  22.990
Element Category:  Alkali metal
Sodium is usually a very cool and confident guy.  His "Na" symbol comes from his Latin name, Natrium.  Sodium is an essential nutrient to humans and some plants.  In humans, sodium regulates blood volume, blood pressure, osmotic equilibrium and pH.  But like all his other alkali metal friends, Sodium is highly reactive, and has a very violent reaction to water (he explodes violently if he touches water).  So it's kind of ironic (or should we say, ionic?   You know, the Na⁺ and Cl^- bond is an ionic bond....heheheheh....) that his girlfriend is Chlorine, someone who loves swimming and working with water (disinfecting water).  But their relationship still works out very well...they are a very cute and strong, salty couple.  (NaCl is the chemical formula for table salt).  Sodium compounds are of immense commercial importance, being particularly central to industries producing glass, paper, soap, and textiles.  Sodium and his friends make many important sodium compounds, such as sodium hydroxide (lye) for soap-making, sodium chloride (NaCl) for use as a de-icing agent and a nutrient (edible salt), baking soda for cooking, soda ash, and sodium nitrate.  Sodium also makes sodium vapor lamps, which are often used for street lighting in cities and mainly gives off a yellow color.

Physical Appearance Info:
Sodium's color scheme is mostly light gray and yellow.  The element sodium is a silvery white color, and the flame test for sodium is yellow.  Also, sodium vapor lamps give off a yellow color.

SILICON
Age:  Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender:  Female
Element Symbol:  Si
Atomic Number:  14
Atomic Mass:  28.086
Element Category:  Metalloid
Silicon is a very nerdy technology geek.  She's a semiconductor, and a very important element in the computer and technology industry.  She's involved in producing silicon wafers used in the semiconductor industry, in electronics, and in some high-cost and high-efficiency photovoltaic applications.  Silicon has become the most popular material to build both high power semiconductors and integrated circuits.  Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, but her atoms very rarely occur as the pure free element in nature.  Her atoms are most widely distributed in dusts, sands, planetoids, and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates.  Over 90% of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals (various minerals containing silicon, oxygen and reactive metals), making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (about 28% by mass) after oxygen.  Silicon also loves making and collecting minerals that are made of very pure silicon dioxide in different crystalline forms:  quartz, agate, amethyst, rock crystal, chalcedony, flint, jasper, and opal.

Physical Appearance Info:
The element silicon is grayish in color, with bluish-tinged areas on it.  So I decided to have her hair be a blending of light-grays and blues.  Sometimes silicon is also a darker gray or darker grayish-blue color, so those colors are in her clothes.  Her bow is made of two square-shaped computer chips put together, and it symbolizes silicon's importance in the electronics and technology industry.  And she holds a jar of sand because the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal settings is silica (silicon dioxide), usually in the form of quartz.

THALLIUM
Age:  Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender:  Male
Element Symbol:  Tl
Atomic Number:  81
Atomic Mass:  204.38
Element Category:  Post-transition metal
Thallium is a very moody and dark individual, similar to Mercury, the element-tan next to him on the periodic table.  Also like Mercury, he's a very dangerous and toxic element.  Approximately 60–70% of thallium production is used in the electronics industry, and the remainder is used in the pharmaceutical industry and in glass manufacturing.  It is also used in infrared detectors.  The radioisotope thallium-201 (as the soluble chloride TlCl) is used in small, nontoxic amounts as an agent in a nuclear medicine scan, during one type of nuclear cardiac stress test.  Soluble thallium salts (many of which are nearly tasteless) are highly toxic in quantity, and were historically used in rat poisons and insecticides.  Use of these compounds has been restricted or banned in many countries, because of their non-selective toxicity.  Notably, thallium poisoning results in hair loss.  Because of its historic popularity as a murder weapon, thallium has gained notoriety as "the poisoner's poison" and "inheritance powder" (alongside arsenic).  Thallium and Mercury often hang out together, and the other element kids think that their relationship is a lot more than just friendship.  Thallium and Mercury, mysterious as they are, have never clearly confirmed or denied the rumors.

Physical Appearance Info:
The element thallium is a soft gray, silvery-white metal, so I put grayish colors in Thallium's color scheme.  Also, I gave Thallium green hair because his flame test color is green (burning a piece of thallium under a blue flame causes it to emit a green flame color as it burns).  Also, the name "thallium" comes from the Greek word thallos, meaning "a green shoot or twig."

SELENIUM
Age:  Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender:  Female
Element Symbol:  Se
Atomic Number:  34
Atomic Mass:  78.96
Element Category:  Nonmetal
Selenium is usually a cool, sassy, and confident girl, but she can be toxic if you ingest too much of her atoms.  She's rarely alone in nature....you can often find her hanging with Sulfur, or something related to a sulfur compound.  Her favorite activity is making red glass and pigments.  She's also a semiconductor who makes photocells.  She's involved in photocopying, and making light meters and solar cells.  She and Bismuth team up to make brasses, to replace the more toxic lead that brass usually contains.  Selenium is an essential micronutrient for animals, but is toxic in large doses.  Selenium's favorite foods are any foods that are high in her atoms, such as Brazil nuts, cereals, kidney, tuna, crab, lobster, mushrooms, fish, and eggs.  She and Mercury are often enemies.  The molecular mechanism of Mercury's toxicity in the human body involves inhibiting selenoenzymes that protect the brain and endocrine tissues from damage.  But increased dietary selenium intakes reduce the effects of Mercury's toxicity.

Physical Appearance Info:
Selenium's color scheme is red, gray, and black, because the element selenium comes in three allotropes:  red, gray, and black selenium.

MAGNESIUM
Age:  Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender:  Male
Element Symbol:  Mg
Atomic Number:  12
Atomic Mass:  24.305
Element Category:  Alkaline earth metal
Magnesium is a cool, active, and energetic guy.  He's strong and light-weight (two-thirds the density of Aluminum).  He's the 8th-most abundant element in the Earth's crust and 9th in the known universe as a whole.  Magnesium is the 4th-most common element in the Earth as a whole (behind iron, oxygen, and silicon).  He can get angry easily because he's a highly flammable metal.  When he burns, he produces a brilliant white light.  And this bright white magnesium fire is very difficult to extinguish, being able to burn in nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and even water!  (That's right, water will not put out a magnesium fire.)  One of Magnesium's best friends is Aluminum.  He and Aluminum team up to make magnesium-aluminum alloys, which are prized for their relative lightness and strength.  Magnesium is also involved in die-casting, flares, pyrotechnics, fireworks sparklers, removing sulfur in the production of iron and steel, and several high-volume part manufacturing applications, including automotive and truck components.  Magnesium loves race-car driving....his atoms have been used to make many race car parts and high-grade car wheels.  He's also involved in making electronic devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, and tablet computers.  Magnesium is a vital component of a healthy human diet.  Magnesium's favorite foods are any foods that are high in his atoms, such as spices, nuts, cereals, coffee, cocoa, tea, and green leafy vegetables such as spinach.

Physical Appearance Info:
Magnesium's color scheme is gray and white.  He has gray clothes and eyes because gray is the color of magnesium metal.  And I gave him crazy, spiky white hair because when magnesium burns, it gives off a brilliant white flame color.


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