Category Archives: Helium application

Helium Balloons! So Festive. So Awful for the Environment.

Posted on September 22, 2019 by admin

Nebraska Cornhusker fans release red balloons after the first score against the Arkansas State Red Wolves in a 2017 football game at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. Americans spent more than $130 million on balloons last year, according to market … Continue reading →

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Helium: What Should Canada Do?

Posted on September 22, 2019 by admin

A global helium shortage has created a crisis for scientists across Canada. Chemists and other researchers depend on this unique element to cool superconducting magnets to 4.2K for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments and certain low-temperature studies. However, helium supplies … Continue reading →

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Helium Shortage Leads World to Reconsider Applications, Procedures for Efficient Use

Posted on September 22, 2019 by admin

The global market is facing its third shortage of helium. Beginning in the spring of 2018, a series of planned and unplanned outages affected global access to supply. While many may immediately think this means party balloons are at the … Continue reading →

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Helium Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

Posted on September 16, 2019 by admin

Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530 14-TB A helium drive is a high capacity hard disk drive (HDD) that is helium-filled. This hard drive technology replaces the air inside the HDD with helium and is hermetically sealed during manufacturing. Helium drive … Continue reading →

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Detecting Gravitational Waves From The Early Universe With The Help Of Helium

Posted on September 16, 2019 by admin

NASA’s upcoming balloon-borne gravitational wave observatory uses new sub-Kelvin cooling technique to achieve its required sensitivity. NASA’s Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne observatory for measuring gravitational waves from the cosmic microwave background, evidence of the early universe’s … Continue reading →

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