Re: Helium



Helium in liquid state has many interesting properties,like defying
gravity. In its gas state one would think its lifting power would be a
lot less than Hydrogen,but reality is it does have less buoyant but much
better than the comparison would suggest. Helium is a tricky gas. Bert

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