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  2. Helium production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Helium production and storage in the United States, 1940-2014 (data from USGS) In 1903, an oil exploration well at Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas that would not burn.. Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth took samples of the gas back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland discovered that gas contained 1.84 percent

  3. The fate of America's largest supply of helium is up in the air

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    The pharmaceutical industry is reliant on helium. And so is the Department of Defense.” Halperin notes that the Defense Department uses helium not only for missiles, but also for surveillance ...

  4. Helium storage and conservation - Wikipedia

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    Helium storage and conservation is a process of maintaining supplies of helium and preventing wasteful loss. Helium is commercially produced as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Until the mid-1990s, the United States Bureau of Mines operated a large scale helium storage facility to support government requirements for helium.

  5. Helium - Wikipedia

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    According to helium conservationists like Nobel laureate physicist Robert Coleman Richardson, writing in 2010, the free market price of helium has contributed to "wasteful" usage (e.g. for helium balloons). Prices in the 2000s had been lowered by the decision of the U.S. Congress to sell off the country's large helium stockpile by 2015. [23]

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

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    These suppliers are prioritizing the health care industry by reducing helium allotments to less essential customers. “Helium is on allocation for sure,” said Donna Craft, a regional ...

  7. Industrial gas - Wikipedia

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    A gas regulator attached to a nitrogen cylinder. Industrial gases are the gaseous materials that are manufactured for use in industry.The principal gases provided are nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon, hydrogen, helium and acetylene, although many other gases and mixtures are also available in gas cylinders.

  8. Explainer-What is helium and why is it used in rockets? - AOL

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    Helium also has a very low boiling point (-268.9°C or -452°F), allowing it to remain a gas even in super-cold environments, an important feature because many rocket fuels are stored in that ...

  9. Prices of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Crude helium sold to non-government users in United States in 2018. In the same year, stockpiles of US government helium were sold on auctions for average price of US$0.00989/L. [ 15 ] 3