Helium: Inhaling it gives you a stupid Donald Duck voice...?!
Question: what are the medical consequences of doing such a dumb thing?
Answers: what are the medical consequences of doing such a dumb thing?
You can reduce the oxygen flow to your brain, causing dizziness or blacking out, to losing consciousness and ultimately death (in fact, a darwin award was given for this).
iv'e herd the rumor that it can actually take time off your life so be careful
lmao yea its annoying and
it gives you possible heart attack and respiratory problems
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yes it does make you sound like donals duck lol
brain damage...from lack of oxygen
It will shrink your brain.
Honestly I don't think there is a permanent side effect, its been done by nearly every american tons of times. wait.
Yes can be dangerous, like glue sniffing or solvent abuse.
it may stay in your alveoli...watch would slow down your respiration rate causing you to breathe faster so that your body can try to get the oxygen it needs
Every time you inhale pure helium, you are not inhaling oxygen which can cause suffocation if done too much. Whatever you do, never inhale helium from a high pressure tank! Besides the serious risk of lung damage, you could end up with bubbles of helium in the arteries that lead to your brain. This can lead to stroke-like symptoms and, of course, death.
you can die from helium poisoning. it will make you asphyxiate after two minutes exposure of pure helium because it displaces oxygen for breathing.
Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic chemical element that heads the noble gas series in the periodic table and whose atomic number is 2. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions. Extreme conditions are also needed to create the small handful of helium compounds, which are all unstable at standard temperature and pressure. In its most common form, helium-4, it has two neutrons in its nucleus, while a second, rarer, stable isotope called helium-3 contains just one neutron. The behavior of liquid helium-4's two fluid phases, helium I and helium II, is important to researchers studying quantum mechanics (in particular the phenomenon of superfluidity) and to those looking at the effects that temperatures near absolute zero have on matter (such as superconductivity).
In 1868 the French astronomer Pierre Janssen first detected helium as an unknown yellow spectral line signature in light from a solar eclipse. Since then large reserves of helium have been found in the natural gas fields of the United States, which is by far the largest supplier of the gas. It is used in cryogenics, in deep-sea breathing systems, to cool superconducting magnets, in helium dating, for inflating balloons, for providing lift in airships and as a protective gas for many industrial uses (such as arc welding and growing silicon wafers). A much less serious use is to temporarily change the timbre and quality of one's voice by inhaling a small volume of the gas (see precautions section below).
Helium is the second most abundant and second lightest element in the known universe, and is one of the elements believed to have been created in the Big Bang. In the modern universe almost all new helium is created as a result of the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in stars. On Earth helium is rare, and almost all of that which exists was created by the radioactive decay of much heavier elements (alpha particles are helium nuclei). After its creation, part of it was trapped with natural gas in concentrations up to 7% by volume, from which it is extracted commercially by fractional distillation. Large reserves of helium have been found in the natural gas fields of the United States (the largest supplier) but helium is known in gas reserves of a few other countries
Notable characteristics
Gas and plasma phases
Helium is the least reactive member of the noble gas elements, and thus also the least reactive of all elements; it is inert and monatomic in virtually all conditions. Due to helium's relatively low molar (molecular) mass, in the gas phase it has a thermal conductivity, specific heat, and sound conduction velocity that are all greater than any gas, except hydrogen. For similar reasons, and also due to the small size of its molecules, helium's diffusion rate through solids is three times that of air and around 65% that of hydrogen.[1]
Helium is less water soluble than any other gas known[citation needed], and helium's index of refraction is closer to unity than that of any other gas[citation needed]. Helium has a negative Joule-Thomson coefficient at normal ambient temperatures, meaning it heats up when allowed to freely expand. Only below its Joule-Thomson inversion temperature (of about 40 K at 1 atmosphere) does it cool upon free expansion. Once precooled below this temperature, helium can be liquefied through expansion cooling.
Helium discharge tube shaped like the element's atomic symbolThroughout the universe, helium is found mostly in a plasma state whose properties are quite different from atomic helium. In a plasma, helium's electrons and protons are not bound together, resulting in very high electrical conductivity, even when the gas is only partially ionized. The charged particles are highly influenced by magnetic and electric fields. For example, in the solar wind together with ionized hydrogen, they interact with the Earth's magnetosphere giving rise to Birkeland currents and the aurora.
Solid and liquid phases
Main article: Liquid helium
Helium solidifies only under great pressure. The resulting colorless, almost invisible solid is highly compressible; applying pressure in a laboratory can decrease its volume by more than 30%.[2] With a bulk modulus on the order of 5