gelfand@valid.UUCP (Brooks Gelfand) (10/23/86)
> In article <520@zen.BERKELEY.EDU>, mikel@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Liang) writes: > > [POP!] > > > > I just opened up my dead helium ballon of two days to breath in and speak like > > like Donald Duck today and it didn't work. Does the helium mutate or diffuse > > out of the balloon and regular air diffuse in or what? > > > > Helium will diffuse through ANYTHING! It is a very small molecule (it comes > in twos--He2) and is almost impossible to keep in or out of things. In high [part of article deleted] > Don Chitwood > Tektronix, Inc. You are right the Helium molecule is small. It is also monoatomic. Helium is one of the Noble (inert) gases. You have a hard time getting it to combine with anything, even itself. Brooks Gelfand