It is the lightest gas after hydrogen. Although it is colorless, odorless, it does not react because it is a noble gas, and therefore it is inert.
Usage areas ;
- Balloon filling
- Magnetic resonance imaging in MR devices
- Nuclear power plants as refrigerants
- Metalware manufacture, to create a protective atmosphere in the welding process.
- Creating a protective atmosphere, gas chromatographs
- In deep underwater diving, breathing air
- leak control gas
- Diving gases
- Asthma etc. in respiratory gas mixtures in patients with
- In laser gas and analytical instruments
It is used in rocket propellant systems.