helium - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:25:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png helium - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Up, up and away: The coolness of vanishing helium https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/12/18/away-coolness-vanishing-helium/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 18:14:04 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2913 Helium. The supercool supercoolant—the gas that keeps party balloons aloft, carries entire houses all the way to Paradise Falls and turns humans briefly into chipmunks—is vanishing. Leaking out of colourful balloons, helium molecules rise up through the atmosphere and disappear into space. Although it’s one of the most abundant elements in the visible universe, it’s rare… Read More »Up, up and away: The coolness of vanishing helium

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