Learn more about the science of helium – and yes, this is a cheesy attempt to include one of the newest photos of my grandson, Oliver, (who BTW is 9 months old today) ….please read on.
But it got me thinking – what is helium and where does it come from? I know you can go to the grocery store and have the salesperson fill up brightly colored balloons for all occasions……and I know Helium is an odorless and colorless gas …..but the question still remains……..where does Helium come from?
Information such as the origins of Helium can be accessed via resources such as Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a ‘free encyclopedia’.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international (and mostly anonymous) group of volunteers. Anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles. There are no requirements to provide one’s real name when contributing; rather, each writer’s privacy is protected unless they choose to reveal their identity themselves. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 3,063,696 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
