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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
- Newsgroups: sci.misc
- Subject: Re: Collection of Gasses
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:25 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- {How the noble gases get from the environment into the little bottles}
-
- There's a nice, brief write-up on this subject under "Helium-group gases"
- in the Wiley-Interscience Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. The
- sound-bite answer is that helium comes from natural-gas wells in certain
- parts of the world, and the others come from liquid air (the different
- constituents of which liquefy and vaporize at different temperatures).
-
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
-