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Helium is a very light inert gas (only hydrogen is less dense than helium). It is possible to extract helium from the atmosphere by the process of fractional distillation (which is to say, by liquefying the atmosphere at very low temperatures and then gradually warming it up so that different gases will boil off at different boiling points) and the gas can be identified and studied in various ways, such as by heating it and observing its emission spectrum. The atmosphere contains 5.24 ppmv (0.000524%) Helium, making it the 6th most abundant gas.

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