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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Subject: Re: Helium Balloons
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 13:58:38 EDT
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In article <520@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> mikel@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Liang) writes:
>[POP!]
>
>I just opened up my dead helium ballon of two days to breath in and speak like
>like Donald Duck today and it didn't work.  Does the helium mutate or diffuse
>out of the balloon and regular air diffuse in or what?
>
>						Mike


Yes, helium has the world's smallest atoms/molecules, and they diffuse through
the rubber quite easily.  Actually Hydrogen atoms are probably smaller, but
they always go about in pairs...

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