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Why is helium lighter then air?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The air is made up of different elements, such a oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon. On the Periodic Table, you can see that the relative Atomic Mass is bigger for these elements that that of helium. Relative atomic mass is not the actual weight of the atom, that would be too hard to find. Therefore scientists use this to show how big some atoms are compared to others.

I', unsure, but I think the helium atom has an RAM of 2, and oxygen for example has a RAM of 16.

Therefore, helium is lighter.

That's why balloons float. How super.

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