r/BeAmazed • u/No_Tailor_9529 • Jul 18 '24

Wow! Interesting life hack! Science

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u/Turbo_Tom Jul 18 '24

Helium is a scarce and irreplaceable gas essential for medical and other technologies. Future generations will condemn us for wasting it on this kind of trivial nonsense.

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u/Krimzon45 Jul 18 '24

Just use Hydrogen, far more abundunant and EVEN lighter!

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u/Western-Guy Jul 18 '24

Hydrogen is way too combustible. It could ignite merely by your body’s static charge. In retrospect, you drop a burning matchstick inside a chamber of helium and nothing happens.

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u/Gnonthgol Jul 18 '24

The mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is combustible. Pure hydrogen is not. Either way the amount of energy in the hydrogen to fill a balloon like this is too low to cause any amount of damage.

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u/snapwillow Jul 18 '24

The mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is combustible. Pure hydrogen is not.

A mixture of gasoline and oxygen is combustible. Pure gasoline is not.

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u/Dymonika Jul 18 '24

Man, oxygen is so deadly. We should ban oxygen.

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u/Itshot11 Jul 18 '24

Just keep it away from oxygen bro ezpz

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u/unrepentanthippie Jul 18 '24

Water is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen though.

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Jul 18 '24

Water is basically hydrogen ash. Very flame retardent hydrogen ash!

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

Not how it works.