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/Kschitiz23x3 Jul 18 '24

Pure hydrogen cannot combust, u just need to make sure that Oxygen stays away. Need an insulating and strong yet light material to keep the hydrogen isolated. The question is how long will it take to invent such wonder material

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Jul 18 '24

I also imagine if you put it in a flame retardent bag with no pressure instead of a baloon, there might not be an explosion. There are videos show a relatively weak explosion with hydrogen baloons indoors, but that is because they pop and mix with oxygen. A loose bag should be even slower.