What happens when you inhale helium

What happens when you inhale helium?

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your voice goes high and squeeky

Is it dangerous to inhale helium?

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Although the vocal effect of inhaling helium may be amusing, it can be dangerous if done to excess. The reason is not due to toxicity or any property of helium but simply due to it displacing oxygen needed for normal respiration. One must b…

What happens if you inhale helium?

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You talk funny (high pitch because helium is less dense than air). Helium is not chemically reactive with your body, so it’s not poisonous. However, it isn’t oxygen, so if you breathe only helium it’ll be like not breathing at all and you’l…

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what happens when you inhale helium?

Q: what happens?

A: Bcause helium is less dense than air, your vocal cords vibrate faster than they do with air, so your voice is higher pitched–you sound like one of the Chipmunks! However, don’t overdo it; helium is inert and won’t hurt you, but it displaces oxygen in your lungs and could cause axphyxiation if you take too much. Not fun!

what happens if you inhale helium and drink bacardi?

Q: i was at a friends house and she was having a b-day party and we were inhaling the helium from the balloons and then we went into the kitchen and she said that i should take a shot of bacardi, so i did and i was like… “why does it taste like helium” and i was like oh shit… would that do anything?? and what happens if you mix them together?

A: I think nothing will happen…do you learn science?Helium is a noble gas, or rare gas, and is unreactive, so don’t think so much…nothing will happen

What happens to you vocal chords when you inhale helium?

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A: When we talk air passes out from our lungs through our vocal chords and is caused to vibrate and you hear the words. When you mix helium with air the resulting mix is less dense so as you breathe out the timbre of your voice is altered. The speed of sound in a less dense helium/air mix is higher than in just air. You are increasing the speed of sound of your voice when breathing out this less dense mixture and this increase in speed will affect the frequencies that make up your ‘voice’.If the frequencies are affected the timbre is affected too. A more dense gas may have a very weird affect.Strictly speaking although most people say it is the pitch that changes, it is the actually the ‘timbre’ which is changed, as your vocal chords produce the same shapes and therefore the same pitch.