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Helium is an essential resource for chip production, and Qatar accounts for something like a third of the world's helium.
That helium is now stuck in the Strait.
........and the store down the street is just giving it away for free with purchase of a balloon??? Damn. And despite misconceptions, it doesn't get you high. It only gets balloons high. When I take it, it only makes me talk like jay leno. I mean, in voice pitch. It doesn't make you say douchebag things.
Balloon-helium is far too impure for most industrial or scientific use.
TIL not all helium is the same.