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I mean too much Helium isn’t a problem. It’s one of the few (only?) elements that will just disappear if you don’t do anything with it.

It’s light enough that it rises to the very tip top of the earth’s atmosphere and is then stripped away by solar radiation. That’s why is a depleting natural resource, not because it’s burned or used or anything, but because it just escapes.

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subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Edit: seems I was wrong about the escape mechanism for helium, it seems the primary mechanism is polar wind escape.

Also, hydrogen can also apparently escape from the Earth.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape

faculty.washington.edu/…/Catling2009_SciAm.pdf

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dsilverz@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

It’s one of the few (only?) elements that will just disappear if you don’t do anything with it.

** Lavoisier crying noises **

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- subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
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