2006-09-07 08:32:35 · 20 answers · asked by B F 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Helium.
You will also breath out a proportion of carbon dioxide, but only while your internal oxygen reserves last. (not long).
If you breath only helium, you will axphiate. Your instinct to breath is controlled by an increase in carbon dioxide, not a lack of oxygen.
2006-09-07 08:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by Hairyloon 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
On the assumption that the helium is breathed in with normal air, then the by products of breathing (C02, Water etc) will be breathed out with the majority of the Helium.
A very small amounts will be absorbed into the bloodstream but will be eventualy scrubbed out. Your voice goes all funny becuause of the way the helium affects your voicebox but its only dangerous if you deprive yourself of breathing oxygen.
2006-09-08 02:04:55 · answer #2 · answered by ScottishWalrus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At first you will exhale the helium, carbon dioxide and whatever else (nitrogen etc) you inhaled before starting breathing helium. As you continue to breathe you will only be inhaling the helium. This will purge the other gasses from you. I guess you will still exhale some carbon dioxide as long as their is some oxygen in your body.
You won't do this for very long though as sooner rather than later your body will not have enough oxygen and you will die from asphyxiation.
2006-09-07 21:14:49 · answer #3 · answered by Dive, dive, dive 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Helium, Carbon Dioxide, and Water Vapor.
2006-09-07 08:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by gibbon 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Helium along with a small amount of carbon dioxide (CO2). But mostly helium, that's why your voice returns back to normal after a short while.
2006-09-07 08:35:30 · answer #5 · answered by Johny0555 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Helium for a minute or two, then nothing.
If you breathe in a helium/oxygen mixture you breathe out CO2, He, and H20 (trace).
Helium/oxygen mixtures are used where breathing air (nitrogen/oxygen mixture) is hazardous or "impractical". It is used in Deep Diving to prevent Nitrogen Narcosis, and medically for treatment of constrictive lung diseases. It WAS used in space vehicles, I think primarily for weight reduction, but I'm having difficulty finding current-day space applications. The second reference contains more information than I'm interested in right now, but no simple answer to whether heliox is still in use in space.
2006-09-07 09:25:32 · answer #6 · answered by Helmut 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Helium reacts with NOTHING! A small amount will be absorbed into your blood stream, but again, it won't react or combine to form anything. Most of the helium will be expelled, except for the small amount absorbed into your blood. 'He' exists as 'He' and nothing else.
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2006-09-07 09:39:51 · answer #7 · answered by Brendan R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will breath out whatever amount of helium is left in your lungs that your body did not uptake...and whatever carbon dioxide your body excreted through your lungs....you still breath out carbon dioxide b/c it's what your body makes after a series of processes in your cells involving sugars, oxygen, atp, etc. etc....therefore, breathing in helium will not change that, but if you don't get oxygen you will suffocate, and die.
2006-09-07 08:40:47 · answer #8 · answered by jaredtcampbell 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Warmer, more humid helium. Helium is an inert gas that cannot be made to have a chemical reaction with anything.
2006-09-07 08:41:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Helium and carbon dioxcide but its not that healthy
2006-09-07 08:39:05 · answer #10 · answered by Michael a 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋