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  2. Helium storage and conservation - Wikipedia

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    In reaction to depleting helium sources, the Helium Act of March 3, 1927 was established to prohibit the sale of helium to foreign countries and for non-governmental domestic use. [ 8 ] By 1937, a number of factors collided to move the United States government to revise its helium policy and create the Helium Act of September 1, 1937.

  3. Helium cryogenics - Wikipedia

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    One proposed use for superfluid helium is in quantum computing. Quantum computers utilize the quantum states of matter, such as the electron spin, as individual quantum bits (qubits), a quantum analogue of the bit used in traditional computers to store information and perform processing tasks. The spin states of the electrons present on the ...

  4. Biological roles of the elements - Wikipedia

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    The noble gases helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon are nonreactive and have no known direct biological role — albeit xenon nevertheless very surprisingly exhibits both anesthetic and neuroprotective side-effects despite usually being considered "chemically inert," and can activate at least one human transcription factor. (Radon is ...

  5. 8 surprising ways your brain powers the rest of your body - AOL

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    The increase in energy used for critical thinking is tiny compared to your brain’s baseline energy needs. Also, your brain can’t store energy. It needs a constant supply of glucose and oxygen ...

  6. The world is running out of helium. Here's why doctors are ...

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    A global helium shortage has doctors worried about one of the natural gas’s most essential, and perhaps unexpected, uses: MRIs.. Strange as it sounds, the lighter-than-air element that gives ...

  7. Liquid helium - Wikipedia

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    Liquid helium is a physical state of helium at very low temperatures at standard atmospheric pressures.Liquid helium may show superfluidity.. At standard pressure, the chemical element helium exists in a liquid form only at the extremely low temperature of −269 °C (−452.20 °F; 4.15 K).

  8. Medical gas therapy - Wikipedia

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    The dry air on the Earth we inhale consists of 78.8% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen and 0.93% argon. Heliox therapy is substitution of nitrogen with helium. Helium itself has no pharmacological value, it does not react in the body. Its only purpose is to make the flow less turbulent and help oxygen to get into the lungs.

  9. Human thermoregulation - Wikipedia

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    Simplified control circuit of human thermoregulation. [8]The core temperature of a human is regulated and stabilized primarily by the hypothalamus, a region of the brain linking the endocrine system to the nervous system, [9] and more specifically by the anterior hypothalamic nucleus and the adjacent preoptic area regions of the hypothalamus.