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Krillion prompt · October 11, 2026

Name a metal (pure elements only; alloys like steel don't count)

Krillion accepted 95 answers for this prompt in Dive #88. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.

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Notes on this prompt

  • With 95 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 476), so there’s less room to go deep.
  • 47 answers (49%) are Deep Cuts and 24 are Rare, while 9 sit at Plankton.

Quick picks

The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.

Barium +60 Cesium +60 Osmium +60

Also accepted elsewhere

The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.

Every accepted answer

One in a Krillion

The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.

+100 · 2
  • Rhenium

    Announced in 1925 and named for the Rhine river.

  • Technetium

    Made in 1937 from cyclotron scrap, the first artificial element.

Deep Cut

Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.

+85 · 47
  • Actinium
  • Americium
  • Berkelium
  • Bohrium
  • Californium
  • Cerium
  • Copernicium
  • Curium
  • Darmstadtium
  • Dubnium
  • Dysprosium
  • Einsteinium
  • Erbium
  • Europium
  • Fermium
  • Flerovium
  • Francium
  • Gadolinium
  • Hafnium
  • Hassium
  • Holmium
  • Indium
  • Lanthanum
  • Lawrencium
  • Livermorium
  • Lutetium
  • Meitnerium
  • Mendelevium
  • Moscovium
  • Neptunium
  • Nihonium
  • Niobium
  • Nobelium
  • Praseodymium
  • Promethium
  • Protactinium
  • Roentgenium
  • Rubidium
  • Ruthenium
  • Rutherfordium
  • Samarium
  • Seaborgium
  • Tantalum
  • Terbium
  • Thallium
  • Thulium
  • Yttrium

Rare

Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.

+60 · 24
  • Antimony
  • Barium
  • Beryllium
  • Bismuth
  • Cadmium
  • Cesium
  • Gallium
  • Germanium
  • Iridium
  • Manganese
  • Molybdenum
  • Neodymium
  • Osmium
  • Palladium
  • Polonium
  • Radium
  • Rhodium
  • Scandium
  • Strontium
  • Tellurium
  • Thorium
  • Vanadium
  • Ytterbium
  • Zirconium

Schooler

Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.

+30 · 13
  • Calcium
  • Chromium
  • Cobalt
  • Lithium
  • Magnesium
  • Nickel
  • Plutonium
  • Potassium
  • Sodium
  • Titanium
  • Tungsten
  • Uranium
  • Zinc

Plankton

The first thing everyone thinks of.

+10 · 9
  • Aluminum
  • Copper
  • Gold
  • Iron
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Platinum
  • Silver
  • Tin

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