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From: fay@encore.UUCP (Peter Fay)
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Subject: Re: Helium Balloons
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Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 10:06:40 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?
>
Helium molecules are too small to stay inside a mushy balloon for very
long. Next time try one of those foil-type balloons. My daughters have
lost more than one of them to their helium-munging father.