r/BeAmazed • u/No_Tailor_9529 • Jul 18 '24

Science Wow! Interesting life hack!

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u/Turbo_Tom Jul 18 '24

Helium is a scarce and irreplaceable gas essential for medical and other technologies. Future generations will condemn us for wasting it on this kind of trivial nonsense.

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u/Krimzon45 Jul 18 '24

Just use Hydrogen, far more abundunant and EVEN lighter!

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u/Western-Guy Jul 18 '24

Hydrogen is way too combustible. It could ignite merely by your body’s static charge. In retrospect, you drop a burning matchstick inside a chamber of helium and nothing happens.

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u/Krimzon45 Jul 18 '24

Don't threaten me with a good time ;)

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u/mariller_ Jul 18 '24

In retrospect?

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u/Western-Guy Jul 18 '24

*on the other hand

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u/mariller_ Jul 18 '24

Yeah, this one works, the other not so much :)

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u/joe-manzon Jul 18 '24

Probably a new word they’ve been eager to use. Sadly, the attempt failed.

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u/all_m0ds_are_virgins Jul 18 '24

Looks kike "Western-Guy" is actually Indian lol. Props to them for learning English tho

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u/Gnonthgol Jul 18 '24

The mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is combustible. Pure hydrogen is not. Either way the amount of energy in the hydrogen to fill a balloon like this is too low to cause any amount of damage.

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u/snapwillow Jul 18 '24

The mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is combustible. Pure hydrogen is not.

A mixture of gasoline and oxygen is combustible. Pure gasoline is not.

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u/Dymonika Jul 18 '24

Man, oxygen is so deadly. We should ban oxygen.

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u/Itshot11 Jul 18 '24

Just keep it away from oxygen bro ezpz

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u/unrepentanthippie Jul 18 '24

Water is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen though.

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Jul 18 '24

Water is basically hydrogen ash. Very flame retardent hydrogen ash!

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

Not how it works.

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u/Kschitiz23x3 Jul 18 '24

Pure hydrogen cannot combust, u just need to make sure that Oxygen stays away. Need an insulating and strong yet light material to keep the hydrogen isolated. The question is how long will it take to invent such wonder material

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Jul 18 '24

I also imagine if you put it in a flame retardent bag with no pressure instead of a baloon, there might not be an explosion. There are videos show a relatively weak explosion with hydrogen baloons indoors, but that is because they pop and mix with oxygen. A loose bag should be even slower.

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u/TheCommomPleb Jul 18 '24

Explosions are cool. Calm down dork

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u/Okinawa14402 Jul 18 '24

Inside a balloon hydrogen is relatively safe. It will not burn without oxygen so it will not just blow up on static charge.

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u/D0D Jul 18 '24

So use it for cooking.

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u/Demigod787 Jul 18 '24

Have we learnt NOTHING from the Hindenburg.

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u/NoRealQuestions Jul 19 '24

Holy shit lmao your comment made me realize people understand NOTHING until you put a /s at the end. goddamn, no shit sherlock. its a fucking joke

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u/LSaTSB Jul 18 '24

Hindenburg airship was using hydrogen. Look what happened

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u/joe28598 Jul 18 '24

Fun fact, the Hindenburg made many flights across the Atlantic Ocean. It was the fastest option from Europe to the US at the time, taking 5 days.

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u/Current_Speaker_5684 Jul 18 '24

I want my whole city picked up by hindenburgs and migrated north for the summer.

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u/Kitchen_Produce_Man Jul 18 '24

The real life hack is always in the comments! 😂