Today I stepped on the scale and felt like it wanted to step on me too, fed up with me dropping my entire weight on it. Even though today it shows 171 and even though I could say I've lost almost 15 kg, by all accounts I remain a whale. I wondered why people use terms like whale or elephant to describe fit and muscular people like me, and why not chemical elements. Take a look at a list of the heaviest elements: Osmium, Iridium, Gold, or Lead. All these elements have a weight