Re:as far as i know, He is just an inert gas +


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Posted by mike on October 09, 2000 at 23:11:54:

In Reply to: Re: Effect of Helium posted by Eins on October 09, 2000 at 22:43:39:

with no chemical reactivity except under extraordinary circumstances. Breathing pure He is equivalent to not breathing at all because there is supposed to be no O2 in those He cylinders. (when they overhaul the Goodyear blimp, it is said that all the insects and other critters up in the hangar drop dead from the lack of O2, when the O2 is displaced downwards by the He)


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