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Hydrogen and helium are two elements that are kinda-sorta interchangeable in airships.
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What element is used in airships that is dangerous?
Hydrogen was once used to fill airships. Quite dangerous due to how flammable it is.
What element is used to fill airships and balloons?
Helium
What element was once used to fill airships?
Hydrogen was the gas that was once used to filled airships. It is extremely plentiful and easy to produce. However, it is also extremely flammable and caused a few accidents. Helium is now used.
What did hydrogen used to be used for?
The only answer that comes to mind is "Airships". Hydrogen, the lightest element, was used in airships, where excess weight was undesirable. However, accidents like the Hindenburg disaster showed that Hydrogen gas was too dangerous(it is extremely flammable) to be used. Since then, Helium has been used instead. Helium is also a very light element, and is completely safe, as it is inert.
What is a light element used for lifting airships?
Hydrogen (explosive), Helium (non-explosive).
What flammable gas used to be used in airships?
Hydrogen used to be used in airships.
Why is gas no longer used for airships?
gas is still used in airships to provide lift.
An element too dangerous to use in modern airships?
That'd be hydrogen.
Synonyms for air ships?
Airships are also, and more commonly, known as zeppelins. The term airship is also used to refer to an airplane, but this usage is incorrect, as they have two different meanings. Airships might also be called blimps or dirigibles.
Used in airships after the Hindenburg disaster?
Hydrogen
What is the name of a movie with airships?
Hayao Miyazaki has featured airships in several of his films, including Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the sky. You can also find airships in Howl's moving castle. Here is a website on some anime with airships: http://animeworld.com/related/airships.html Also, here is a website with a lot of other movies with airships: http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship/films.htm
Why airships today safer than in the past?
because hydrogen used to be in those airships and since hydrogen is flammable it was very dangerous
