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I am Helium
I am number 2
I hate Mixing with other Chemicals
I love to be by myself at the top
You cant see me, taste me or smell me
I am Helium
I can make voices sound funny, if I try!
I can make things float for I am lighter than the sky
I can go miles under the sea
And still breathe!
I am number 2
I am Helium and its just for me and you!
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By Siobhan Buchanan |
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I am Helium.
My atomic number is that of 2.
I won't combine with other elements, myself, or you.
I am an odorless, colorless, tasteless gas.
4.0026 is my mass.
-268.93 is boiling point, extremely low.
Except for hydrogen, I'm the least dense gas known.
I was first identified as an element in 1868.
Janssen discovered me by mistake.
Really studying solar eclipses in India.
Neon, Argon, Xenon, Radon are part of mi familia.
We are part of the noble gases also called inert.
I'm the 2nd most abundant element of the earth.
I fill up things that fly like balloons and balls.
That is why I am the best of element of them all.
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By Nicole Nevarez |
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Helium
A light inert, Nobel gas
Named after the sun God, Helios
It was discovered on the sun before on Earth
Discovered on the sun in 1868 & on the sun in 1895
Norman Lockyear was credited with finding it on earth &
Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen & William Ramsey on the sun
Not gravitationally bound to the earth so always lost in space
Future possible uses include coolant for nuclear fusion plants
A light, Odorless, Colorless, Tasteless, non-flammable gas
Commercially recovered from natural gas deposits mostly in
The United States specifically Texas Oklahoma & Kansas
Has the lowest boiling and melting point of any element
In liquid form used to create superconductive magnets
Makes up about 0.0005% of the earth's atmosphere
Doesn't combine easily with other elements
Used to inflate party balloons and blimps
Second most abundant element
Properties of superfluidity
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By Danelle Pontzious |
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Helium, a gas
With an atomic number of 2
Believe it or not
It’s used by me and you
You get a dozen balloons
On your special day
Say thanks for the gift
Now its time to play
Make a hole in the balloon
And suck out its inside
Talk, it sounds funny
You wont regret you tried
Or you could go
Dive under the sea
Have fun with the sharks
Swim and breathe free
The helium inside
The tank on your back
Allows you to do this
It keeps your heart on track
So thank Pierre Janssen
For discovering this gas
It’s the second most abundant
And one you can’t surpass |
By j.k. |
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Helium
Quiet, rare, and thoughtful.
Always the heavier sister to Hydrogen
Who everybody used to love
because she was pretty much everywhere.
Until she became too volatile.
Oh the humanity.
And now
Nobody will even think of you in a big way.
You'll never be as popular.
But you make children laugh with
your silvery balloons, and funny voices.
Really, we realize we love you more. |
By Greg |
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Helium drift me
from your weightlessness
and set me squeaky free
send me birthday party home.
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By Heidi Bloom |
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Helium can move so very fast,
When it's so cold it's not a gas.
It sounds a bit like science fiction,
But supercold it has no friction.
I see it make the balloon float,
I hear its sound inside your throat,
But of the gases I will toast,
I'll drink to Helium more than most. |
By J P Karr |
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PLACE
MANKIND
ON HELIUM
Be alert to an inert gas blast;
arouse a stable arrangement;
excite a common connection.
FLY A HELIUM BALLOON
Float the thing like a stingray;
soar streamlined solar power;
fly high over the storm clouds.
ENJOY A VIVID BLUE SKY
Feel the real beauty of daytime;
open the grand horizon window;
see the curls of contour farming.
COMPRESS LIQUID HELIUM
Go down to the coolest temperature;
momentarily slow the atom's motion;
observe a curious property that flows.
FIND SUBSTANCE AND STYLES
Quick freeze frame the animus moment;
reanimate the matter of all for the better;
discover what ecstasy will be living later.
IN A DURABLE HELIUM DIRIGIBLE
Passed from generation to generation, it
gives you a safe home among the peers;
it appears, that everything's taken in turn.
STEPPING UP THE COSMIC TEMPO
Your fluid reality receives the good vibes;
light gas lifts you in your pleasure palace;
the universe thanks you for your patience.
WORKING OUT A LIVING INFINITY
Reason gliding right to the important point,
you gather the significant existing lessons;
you put helium to use, beyond expectation.
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By Will Smart |
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Helium
What's the point of being Helium?
With an overly inflated head.
There's no use being at the top,
Without a faithful friend.
Well sure there's Hydrogen,
All the way across.
But Helium is thinks its too good,
For it to play with the little people.
Without realizing it though,
Helium does give joy to many.
Small kids are delighted with its balloons.
So, I guess there's something good in everyone!
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By ShadowSpinner |
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Squeeky voiced
Fun at fairs
Exstatic kids
Reduced to tears
Bright balls rise
On thermal flows
Primary Colours
In sun-like globes
Helium to Helios
Raised on high
Shining brilliance
Dots the sky
Or...kept for days
Now wrinkled skin
Their glory gone
They meet the bin! |
By Claire Sinclair |
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Helium the Comedian
When my voice cracked at a tender age of 15
I thought I would never again feel the shrill
shriek of youth climb up my spine with
a knife in its teeth.
I was lost until I found Helium. One whiff of
the second periodic element made me laugh
with girlish glee. I don’t know how two protons
and four neutrons could make a person so happy.
Helium is blissful happiness in a red balloon. |
By Joseph Wooden |
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He
Lighter than air,
He rises.
Sheathed in rubber he makes children smile
Until a sharp jab releases him
And the smile turns to tears.
In Mylar
He can send a birthday greeting,
Tell of love,
Or raise the spirits of the ill.
He is lighter than air
And lifts
When he can. |
By Sheri Lifesaver |
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Helium
Inhaling one hell of a helium bubble,
My vocal cords shrink and my eyeballs see double,
I'm speaking three octaves above human hearing,
I really don't find this condition endearing.
But far worse than talking the problem impending,
Is freezing to death if I don't start descending! |
By Boing |
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Helium
Light as your lips brushing against my cheek
you fill me with a sense of emptyness
and longing
for the day I can breath deeply and say
'I love you' (in a squeaky voice) |
By Mike Brady |
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Helium
Drifting
suspended in air
a delicately curled yellow ribbon
kept at bay by a sticky fist is
dangling nonchalantly from
that perfect spherical balloon
lighter than air
it sways with the wind
bobbing on the current of the air
hold tight
to the ribbon, child
hold tight
the breeze heightens, beckoning
the balloon sails higher
only to discover its leash
desperate for swift flight among the clouds
to be rid of the ribbon and its fist |
By Megs |
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