Big Sky in the Big Apple

Sorry, guys! Those chemistry classes just got a little bit more difficult as a new element has been (or is in the process of being) added to the periodic table (a table, I must admit, that I haven’t thought about since my schooldays).

The new Element is unfortunately nameless at this point, but it is temporarily being referred to as ununbium (Uub) until they can come up with an official name. It’s element number is 112, and it’s an interesting element in that it’s very unstable and is not able to hold its own outside of a specific controlled laboratory environment. Also, element 112 is actually the heaviest of all of the elements, weighing in at over two hundred fifty times heavier than faintest element of hydrogen. The element should receive an official name of its own soon, as the German group of scientists who discovered it decide on one .