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Helium is formed underground when radioactive particles of larger atoms such as uranium and radon decay into smaller atoms such as helium. This process takes millions of years. However, it takes very little time to use up helium. Once the earth's existing stores of helium are used up, it will take another million years to build up new ones. In the mean time, helium will be scarce.

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