HELIUM SOURCES.

Shannon News, 5 February 1926, Page 3

HELIUM SOURCES.

GOOD NEWS FOR AVIATORS. The need for, helium, is imperative if the airship is to play a real part in aerial navigation. So far it has only been obtained from certain sources of natural gas in Texas and elsewnere Experiments carried out in Berlin have shown a new way of making Helium from a by.product of the Lrnde oxygen works, and another source recently discovered is'_ the monaxite sand''used ' for' * obtaining rhoria for gas mantles. Every pound of this sand, when heated to a sufficiently high temperature, lias been "■ound to give off a pint of helium .jus. Helium, though heavier than hydrogen .has great lifting powers, and is neither poisonous nor inflam i nable.