• Question: what happens if you take helium in in space?

    Asked by anon-225889 to Sameed, Jose, joannabarstow, Heidi, Freya, Chris on 20 Nov 2019.
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      Joanna Barstow answered on 20 Nov 2019:


      A helium ballon taken into space would explode – in fact, any balloon would, because space is a vacuum so the pressure of the gas inside the balloon would burst it apart, unless it was an extremely strong balloon.

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