Elemental Tales (Pg. 2 of 5)

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This is page 2 of my Elemental Tales characters.

Here are the kids' bios:

SULFUR
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: S
Atomic Number: 16
Atomic Mass: 32.065
Element Category: Nonmetal
Sulfur is a fierce and tough individual, very energetic and confident. He can really raise a stink (literally) if he gets too angry, and he can be as explosive as the volcanoes that contain his atoms. He likes to study volcanoes...and sometimes even shoot out of them when they erupt, as a fun activity. He also loves gardening....he fertilizes plants and protects them from bugs by sulfur-dusting them. He can blow sulfur dust out of his mouth, shoot it out of his hands, or even have it rain down from his entire body if he wants to fly over the garden. His main activities are making sulfuric acid (with Hydrogen and Oxygen) and other sulfur chemicals, fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, fungicides, pesticides, matches, and gunpowder.

Physical Appearance Info:
Sulfur has mostly yellow colors on him because elemental sulfur is yellow. His eyes and his arm cuffs are a deep-red color, because if you burn sulfur, it melts into a deep-red liquid. And his shorts and shoelaces are blue, because if you burn sulfur, it emits a blue flame.

BISMUTH
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: Bi
Atomic Number: 83
Atomic Mass: 208.98
Element Category: Post-transition metal
Bismuth has a very colorful and usually cheerful personality. Sometimes, though, she has sensitive and brittle feelings, and if she feels too stressed, she will easily break into sadness. She's very girly....she loves wearing makeup and nail polish, and she has the very unique ability to change her silver hair into many bright, pretty colors, using a special oxygen hair spray (she asks Oxygen to give her some of his atoms, and then she uses them to make a special kind of hair spray). But don't let her girliness fool you too much...she's also very interested in guns, and is a good shot, so don't mess with her! She makes various kinds of medicines and pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, pigments, and also lots of bismuth crystals in the lab to sell to other people. She keeps some crystals to herself for her collection, too.

Physical Appearance Info:
Bismuth's hair is shaped like stair cases, and is very multicolored and shiny, because it's supposed to resemble real-life bismuth crystals, as seen here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bi-… and here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wis… (you can also do an Internet search for "bismuth crystals" to see many more examples). Her eyes and her dress are silvery, because that's the color of plain bismuth. And her eyeshadow, upper-half of dress, and shoes are blue because when you burn bismuth in oxygen, bismuth burns with a blue flame.

PHOSPHORUS
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: P
Atomic Number: 15
Atomic Mass: 30.974
Element Category: Nonmetal
Phosphorus is very feisty, cool, and confident. If he gets too angry or feels threatened, he gets very nasty and dangerous, and turns himself all white (White Phosphorus), which causes him to self-ignite because of the oxygen in the air. He shoots out chunks of burning, toxic white phosphorus as a weapon, which causes very nasty burns and injuries to anyone who gets hit by them. You can see an example of him using this power in this animation here:
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This weapon doesn't work in water, though, so he has to stay away from water when using the power. The white and pale-yellow colors in his hair, eyes, and clothes glow greenish in the dark when exposed to oxygen. He's involved in farming and agriculture (specifically making fertilizer). He's also involved in making matches, explosives, poisons, and nerve agents. And he likes food rich in protein.

Physical Appearance Info:
In real life, there are several allotropes of phosphorus. The most common are white and red phosphorus. But there's also black and violet phosphorus, too. So I put all four of these colors into Phosphorus' color scheme. White phosphorus can be either a white or pale-yellow color, so I put both of these colors into my character Phosphorus. Red phosphorus actually looks like a brownish color, so I decided to put both dark red and brown colors into my character Phosphorus. Black phosphorus is black, but violet phosphorus actually looks like a grayish color, so I put black and gray into my character Phosphorus.

IODINE
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: I
Atomic Number: 53
Atomic Mass: 126.90
Element Category: Halogen
Iodine is a cool, sweet, and kind girl. But if you irritate her too much, she steams in anger....a huge purple gaseous steam of anger. She's very concerned about nutrition, always trying to be as health-conscious as possible. She's most concerned about people's thyroid glands (located in the throat), and is the thyroid doctor of the element kids. Anyone who is deficient in her atoms goes to see her for treatment. Although she's usually good at staying healthy with healthy food, she does have a huge weakness for salty food, too. But at least the salt on the salty foods she eats is iodized salt!

Physical Appearance Info:
Iodine's color scheme is bluish-black and purple, because solid iodine is bluish-black, and gaseous iodine is a very purple color.

NITROGEN
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: N
Atomic Number: 7
Atomic Mass: 14.007
Element Category: Non-metal
Nitrogen is generally friendly and good-natured, but he can be inert at times, too. He's in charge of 78% of the Earth's atmosphere (while his friend Oxygen is in charge of 20% of it). He really loves plants and gardening, working specifically with fertilizers. His favorite food is nitrogen ice cream....he loves to make and eat it all the time. He also loves to crush and distort items with his super-freezing liquid nitrogen powers. And he's very good at saving and preserving things for a very long time.

Physical Appearance Info:
Nitrogen's color scheme is mostly purple because that's the color of nitrogen when you put it through both a discharge tube and a gas-discharge lamp.

PLATINUM
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Pt
Atomic Number: 78
Atomic Mass: 195.08
Element Category: Transition metal, noble metal, precious metal, platinum group metal
Platinum is a very suave, wealthy and handsome gentleman, just like the other noble metal males Silver and Osmium. Besides being a noble/precious metal, he's also the leader of his own group, the platinum group metals. He's serious, smart, and usually level-headed. But he's quite vain, too, and easily gets annoyed with things and people. He has a vast collection of valuable items and other things made out of platinum. He's involved in vehicle emissions control, and making anti-cancer drugs, spark plugs, and turbine engines. Although Silver is also a noble metal like Platinum is, Platinum doesn't get along with Silver very well, because he's often jealous of him for having Gold as his girlfriend. Platinum doesn't like to talk about this issue very much, though.

Physical Appearance Info:
Platinum metal is a grayish-white color, so that's Platinum's color scheme.

CHLORINE
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: Cl
Atomic Number: 17
Atomic Mass: 35.453
Element Category: Halogen
Chlorine has a very sweet, confident, sultry, and cool attitude.  But be very careful with her....she also has a very poisonous side to her, and if you get her too angry, she can spray a cloud of poisonous chlorine gas at you that can very likely kill you. Her favorite activity is swimming, but she'll only swim in clean, chlorinated pools. She loves to drink water, too, but only as long as the water is clean and disinfected. And she loves to do laundry, specifically preferring to wash all the element kids' white clothes with bleach, making sure the white clothes are as clean, bright, and white as can be. If you haven't already figured it out by now, she's just an absolute, outright, obsessive-compulsive clean-freak altogether, constantly cleaning and disinfecting everything around her, so that it's impeccably spotless....not a speck of dirt or germs anywhere. She and her boyfriend Sodium make one salty couple, literally.

Physical Appearance Info:
Chlorine's color scheme is a pale greenish-yellow, and yellow, because gaseous chlorine is a pale greenish-yellow color, and liquid chlorine is more of a regular yellow color. Also, the word "chlorine" comes from an Ancient Greek word that means "pale green."

MERCURY
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Female
Element Symbol: Hg
Atomic Number: 80
Atomic Mass: 200.59
Element Category: Transition metal
Mercury is a very moody and serious character...she rarely ever smiles. She has a very dangerous and toxic personality. She can very easily poison anybody who irritates her, so be extremely careful when dealing with her. Her nicknames are Quicksilver and Hydrargyrum (the latter name is where her "Hg" symbol comes from). She's very interested in measuring instruments....she makes many measuring instruments such as thermometers, barometers, manometers, float valves, and so on. She's even made a large, magical thermometer staff for herself that can shoot out liquid mercury as a weapon. She also loves fishes. She often goes fishing in her spare time, and has many pet fish in her aquarium. She's also involved in making fluorescent lamps, mercury-vapor lamps, and dental amalgams.

Physical Appearance Info:
Mercury's color scheme is silver and light bluish-green, because the element mercury is a silvery color, and the color of mercury in a gas-filled tube is a light bluish-green color. Mercury-vapor lamps also emit a light bluish-green color.

ARGON
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Ar
Atomic Number: 18
Atomic Mass: 39.848
Element Category: Noble gas
Argon is a very shy and quiet kid who rarely interacts with the other element kids (although, on rare occasions, he has interacted with Hydrogen and Fluorine). He's usually inactive and lazy. But he actually isn't useless...in fact, there are many applications where he is very helpful, exactly because he is inert and very cheap. He can extinguish fires without damaging server equipment. He can produce an atmosphere that's used in graphite electric furnaces to prevent the graphite from burning. He can preserve things very well, too....he can displace oxygen- and moisture-containing air in packaging material to extend the shelf-lives of the contents. He fills up incandescent lights to preserve the filaments at high temperature from oxidation. He can also make bluish-green ion laser light.

Physical Appearance Info:
I put purple and light bluish-green in Argon's color scheme. Purple, because that's the color of argon in a high-voltage electric field (and also a gas discharge lamp), and light bluish-green, because that's the color of an argon ion laser.

KRYPTON
Age: Billions of years old (but looks like a teenager on the outside)
Gender: Male
Element Symbol: Kr
Atomic Number: 36
Atomic Mass: 83.798
Element Category: Noble gas
Krypton is a rather quiet, but noble, smart and respectable guy. Like his other noble gas friends, he doesn't interact very much with the other elements. He usually keeps to himself and passes the time by doing his favorite activity, photography. He loves taking pictures with his camera, usually of nature things. He also likes making luminous signs and fluorescent lamps.

Physical Appearance Info:
Krypton's long dreadlocks, his eyes, eyebrows, and clothes are all white. This is because the color of the element krypton in a high-voltage electric field (and also a gas discharge lamp) is white. Solid krypton is also white.


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