• Question: why is helium bad for you ???? what does it do to you ????

    Asked by coraline to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      The main thing about helium that is bad is that it’s not air! We need the right balance of oxygen to other things. For instance, when you’re scuba diving, you might actually have a mix of helium and oxygen because it’s safer when you’re deep underwater.

      In general helium doesn’t do too much I don’t think, it’s what we call an inert gas, like nitrogen. That means it doesn’t interact with anything normally! The main problem is that it can take the place of oxygen which we really need!

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