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"Helium is notoriously difficult to contain. Its atoms are some of the tiniest in the universe." It's a good article, and I learned a lot, but every so often it reads like something an 8th grader would write the night before their paper is due.
Plenty of "unscathed" around, but I don't think I ever met the "un"-free word.
Reminds me of the P.G.Wodehouse "far from gruntled" ( https://nydamprintsblackandwhite.blogspot.com/2011/05/words-... )
Stupid question, but could you potentially create a helium balloon that never runs out of helium (because it's sealed and doesn't leak)?
...I didn't really we had the technology to seal helium at all. Stupid question, but could you potentially create a helium balloon that never runs out of helium (because it's sealed and doesn't leak)?
"Helium is notoriously difficult to contain. Its atoms are some of the tiniest in the universe." It's a good article, and I learned a lot, but every so often it reads like something an 8th grader would write the night before their paper is due.
And then it swings up and hits you with "a way that it doesn’t scathe the seal" . Plenty of "unscathed" around, but I don't think I ever met the "un"-free word. Reminds me of the P.G.Wodehouse "far from gruntled" ( https://nydamprintsblackandwhite.blogspot.com/2011/05/words-... )
if helium is better, why not use a vacuum?
A gas provides a "bearing" for the heads to ride on as the disk spins below it.