Helium is one of my favorite gases because I am all about having fun and what can be more fun than helium? Helium is that awesome gas that is most know for giving you a voice like these furry little guys.
The way to give your self a squeaky voice is to suck helium in. One...lets say theory that some people have is that, sucking in Helium is bad for you. They say it is bad for your lungs and kills brain cells. But actually sucking in Helium is harm less. Here is a fun fact, which will be followed by a couple more, helium is used in therapeutic ways. Such as healing asthma and helping infants that do not tolerate face masks breathe through nasal canals filled with helium-oxygen.
When I was younger about 8-11 I would read picture books. Who doesn't love picture books? You can fly through them and still read a great story. Well, one of the books that I read numerous times was called "The Red Balloon". In this book a boy gets a helium balloon and it becomes his best friend. But the part relating to this post is that in the end he flies away with lots of helium balloons. Or even in that movie called"Up". The house is lifted by helium balloon. Now these are just cartoons, it would actually take millions of balloons to pick up a house. It takes 6000 helium balloons to lift a 75 pound baby. Which is about 34.02 kilos and I am about 48 kilos. A couple more hundreds of balloons to lift me.
Helium is also used to detect leaks in large vacuums(not the ones at home). When a leak is detected a alarm sounds or it can be easily noticeable on a visual display.
Africa is a beautiful place. It has lots of animals and wildlife a real treat to anybody who gets the chance to experience it. Each year millions of animals travel from Tanzania's Serengeti Plains to Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. People pay lots of money to see this spectacle happen. The best way is to see it from above. In a hot air balloon. And what lets you have this once in a life time journey, HELIUM!! And hot air rising, but some use helium. Or blimps are also used to watch the Great Migration which are all helium.
In conclusion Helium is an AWESOME gas that is so much fun and takes part in my favorite thing of all. Explosions. You can make a dry ice and helium explosion. Just go on to youtube and learn more about it there. Have fun with it and hope you learned something.
