If you pump helium into a balloon and release it, the balloon will fly to a maximum altitude of less than 10km. At that time, the ball will burst due to atmospheric pressure and the firmness of the surface of the ball is no longer enough to withstand the pressure of the gas inside it.
Helium (Helium) is released lighter than other gases in the atmosphere, so it continues to fly into space. That’s why only about 0.0005% of helium exists in the atmosphere.
Helium exists a lot in space. This is because it is a product of the fusion reaction inside stars, such as the sun. However, helium on Earth appears by a different process. Deep inside the Earth, radioactive elements like Uranium (Uranium) or Thorium (Thorium) decay and turn into other elements. The by-products of these reactions are alpha particles (abbreviated as a) , whose composition consists of 2 neutrons (neutrons) and 2 protons (protons). These particles collect electrons from their surroundings and convert to helium gas. They will gradually fly out of the Earth’s crust and remain in the atmosphere. After that, they continued to fly into space.
Helium exists a lot in space.
Helium is also a natural gas that oil and gas drillers extract from the ground to use as operating fuel. This gas is not only a source of balloons, but they are also used in many other industrial processes, ranging from arc welding to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or even manufactures silicon chips for computers.
Helium makes up only a very small amount in natural gas, at least 0.3% by volume. This is proof that separating it from a naturally occurring gaseous compound is quite troublesome. To do this, one must perform industrial processes that filter other impurities, such as water, Carbon Dioxide or Hydrogen Sulfide, from the gas. Finally, they continue to undergo freezing to cool the gas and remove the methane that makes up the majority of it. From this we have a crude form of Helium with between 50 and 70% pure, the rest of which is a small amount of Argon, Neon and Hydrogen (Hydrogen). The raw helium is then purified through another filtration and cooling process to achieve a purity rate of more than 99%.
The problem is that there aren’t many gas fields that have enough helium in them and helium extraction can be difficult to achieve the desired efficiency and cost to do and most of them come from a few sources. , including the US Government’s National Helium Reserve. The need for helium in nature is very much, but they are completely inadequate for those needs.