Monthly Archives: July 2016

Why We Can Stop Worrying About Helium

A helium discovery in Tanzania might have come just in time. Where are we going? To how the market rescued helium. Why We Need Helium As a liquid at minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit and as an inert gas with tiny … Continue reading

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Scientists Just Discovered A Massive Field Of Precious Helium Gas In Africa

British scientists have detected a huge helium field in Africa, after discovering a massive stash of the crucial gas underground in Tanzania. The find – estimated to be nearly seven times the total amount of helium consumed globally every year … Continue reading

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Durham University Researchers Help Uncover Huge Helium Gas Field To Avert Medical Shortage

RESEARCHERS from a North-East university have helped uncover a massive helium gas field which could address the increasingly critical shortage of the vital element. Helium may be best known for making voices squeaky and keeping up party balloons but the … Continue reading

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New Helium Reserve Discovered In Tanzania Means We Aren´t Running Out Of Helium (Yet)

After a birthday balloon pops, the helium floats out of the atmosphere and into space, never to be recovered. Helium has some amazing properties. Its boiling point is -452.1 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes liquid helium an ideal coolant for electronic … Continue reading

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Helium Shortage Could Be Solved By New Life-saving Discovery

Reserves have been so low that doctors have called for a ban on using the gas in party balloons Scientists might finally have overcome a global shortage of helium – potentially saving millions of lives in the process. Helium might … Continue reading

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