Really? Can I buy a bottle somewhere? I want to inject helium into one of my cables that sounded too realistic. 
That will be a big hit at the Thanksgiving party.
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Have you never been around a bunch of kids/teens/young adults who suck the air out of a helium ballon and talk and Donald duck?
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I am getting a bottle, sounds fun!
I really canât tell if youâre serious butâŠ
The more pure helium you inhale, the longer your body is without crucial oxygen. Breathing in pure helium can cause death by asphyxiation in just minutes . Inhaling helium from a pressurized tank can also cause a gas or air embolism, which is a bubble that becomes trapped in a blood vessel, blocking it.
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Donât worry, I was not serious at all. The whiskey was simply too good.
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Iâm sure you wonât lose any sleep over it, Al. 
Believe me, if I could try those Stealths I would. 
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I believe itâs nitrogen. Not exactly more healthy, but stillâŠ
the wacky-voice balloons are helium
nitrogen in gas form occurs in scuba divers who rise too fast, can be deadlyâŠnot so much because of nitrogen toxicity but by nitrogen bubbles blocking small blood vessels critical for oxygen delivery
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Thanks for clarifying and educating me!
After uncarefull reading, I took the balloon thing down my own line of thinking, as in the Netherlands, and perhaps elsewhere as well, young adults are enjoying themselves with N2O filled balloons, doing crazy things afterwards.
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Nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas
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Thatâs a new one for me; amazing what one learns here!
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It does wonders for race car engines!
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Silver that is oxidized conducts better. The helium is used for air dielectric substitute being inert no moisture causing it to be a dielectric with negative impact.
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Perhaps argon could be considered. Abundant and atomic No 18 so easy to contain. Inert for these purposes too.
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if kryptonite was a gasâŠ
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What makes you think it isnât?
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Definitely crystalline. I saw it in a movie somewhere.
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yes, âkryptonâ is another ânobleâ gas
kryptonite comes from Supermanâs planet of Krypton, yet to be found by the James Webb telescopeâŠbut I still believe the movie
Lex Luthor had chunks of kryptonite
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Chemists at the Polish Academy of Sciences have discovered that the element krypton may not be quite as unreactive as previously thought, and that while it might not be able to form Superman-slaying kryptonite crystals â for which it would need to bond with nitrogen â it can bond with oxygen, forming krypton monoxide.
