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The professor shows us how liquid helium is recycled at his university and comments on reports that the use of helium in party balloons is causing supply problems.
The professor explains how scientists get hydrogen to bond with a special type of helium.
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For more incredible facts about helium, check out The Elements by Theodore Gray.
The ancient Greeks called the Sun god, Helios. Scientists called helium, after Helios, because the element is formed in the Sun by nuclear fusion of two deuterium atoms.
If you cool some materials with liquid helium, they lose their electrical resistance. In this way...
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