Helium Weather Balloons A weather balloon is a scientific instrument used by meteorologists to measure the activity of the world’s weather. Weather balloons are sent into the air every day‚ all over the world; they are sent up at the same time‚ and they are used to measure a variety of atmospheric pressures‚ temperatures‚ and wind rates. The data collected by weather balloons is saved and transmitted by the radiosonde. Sensors in the radiosonde record data and use a radio transmitter to send
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The ban on the release of helium balloons is extremely heartbreaking news from Worcester city council. They’ll fine anyone caught littering. This ban is only valid in the council banned area. “In your back garden or private land‚ we’re not looking to introduce a ban on that – it would be completely unenforceable‚” concedes Claire Neville‚ spokeswomen for the council. Oxford‚ Brighton‚ Plymouth and Shetland have already banned helium balloons and it the ban in Worcester city goes forward
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Helium Sophia bolg Elementors Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer discovered helium. Pierre Janssen was born on February 22‚ 1824‚ Paris‚ France and died on December 23‚ 1907. He became permanently lame after an incident from his childhood. He could not go to school because of that but did have to start working as a bank clerk due to financial problems. He graduated from the University of Paris in 1852 and in 1865 he became professor of physics at the École Speciale d’Architecture in Paris.While
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Most people think that when the air from a helium balloon changes your voice it is hilarious because you may sound like Donald Duck. He is a funny character and his voice is different than what we hear every day. When you take helium into your mouth and begin to talk‚ it makes you sound like Donald Duck with his high-pitched voice. You generate sound by vibrating two small flaps of mucous membrane‚ called vocal folds. Donald Duck’s vocal cords are vibrating faster than normal people’s which makes
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Helium vs Air soccer balls As football dominates the sports world‚ soccer is slowly rising in America. People all around the world love to play it to. So‚ I started thinking and I through will helium effect a soccer ball. Personally‚ I do not think it will affect it‚ but I am eager to find out. My experiment is does helium affect a soccer ball here is how I did it. 1. Get two size five soccer balls. 2. Get a device to measure your length of how far you kick the soccer ball. ( what I used was
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Ernest Rutherford’s experiment was that he took a piece of gold foil and shot helium atoms at it. In theory they should have rebounded off of the gold foil because scientists at that time believed that the atom was a solid sphere‚ but what actually happened was that most of the atoms went through the gold foil.This showed that the atom wasn’t just a solid sphere like they believed but actually had a nucleus with electrons surrounding it. In 1897‚ a British physicist named J. J. Thomson discovered
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If the world could master space travel and innovate‚ Earth as a whole could solve many problems. These problems include the Helium Shortage‚ the precious metal shortage‚ and overpopulation on earth. We could also gain new knowledge by possibly communicating with more intelligent extra terrestrials. There are a lot of things that the human race as a whole‚ has not figured out how to do yet. If we could find other intelligent life in the world‚ it is possible that they have discovered the secrets
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Hindenburg: The Lifting Power of Hydrogen and Helium The Hindenburg is famously known for being the largest airship that ever flew before its devastating disaster in 1937. The Hindenburg wasn’t just a tragedy or disaster it is known for now. Scientists of that time admired it. The development of this aircraft has a great impact on the scientific community. The Hindenburg was completed in 1936 in Friedrichshafen‚ Germany by the Nazis. It was modeled LZ-129. The LZ-129 was approximately 804 feet
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hydrogen and 8–12% helium by percent volume or fraction of gas molecules. Since a helium atom has about four times as much mass as a hydrogen atom‚ the composition changes when described as the proportion of mass contributed by different atoms. Thus the atmosphere is approximately 75% hydrogen and 24% helium by mass‚ with the remaining one percent of the mass consisting of other elements. The interior contains denser materials such that the distribution is roughly 71% hydrogen‚ 24% helium and 5% other
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The changes that occur during a star ’s life are called stellar evolution. The mass of a star determines the ultimate fate of a star. Stars that are more massive burn their fuel quicker and lead shorter lives. Because stars shine‚ they must change. The energy they lose by emitting light must come from the matter of which the star is made. This will lead to a change in its composition. Stars are formed from the material between stars‚ shine until they exhaust their fuel‚ and then die a predictable
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