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HELIUM (cont’d) • In 1903, the mayor of Dexter, Kansas was officiating at the dedication of a newly-drilled gas well. As per custom, he attempted to ignite the plume of gasses escaping from the drill hole to create a fiery torch, but the flame kept going out. The audience was disappointed, but the state geologist was intrigued. He collected samples of the gas, had it analyzed, and found that much of the gas was helium, which is nonflammable. • The area around Kansas and the Texas Panhandle subsequently became the helium capital of the world, because helium is trapped underground there in abundant amounts, and is a byproduct of natural gas production. In 1928 helium became available on the open market for the first time. • Helium is a noble gas, meaning it doesn’t react or combine with anything else. Other noble gasses are neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon. Neon is the least reactive gas, while helium takes second place. Helium and neon are the only two natural elements that have never been observed bonding to another element in a compound. • Helium is amazing because it’s so light, and it can get extremely cold without freezing. • The three states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. Of all the known elements, helium has the lowest boiling point and also lowest melting point. It melts from solid into liquid at -458.0 degrees F (-272.2 degrees C.) and boils at -452.07 F (-268.93 C). • Helium can be made solid at room temperature if the pressure rises to the equivalent of 114 thousand atmospheres, equal to 834 tons per square inch. This is over 100 times greater than the pressure at the ocean’s deepest point, the Challenger Deep, which is almost seven miles deep (10,916 meters). (continued next page)

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HELIUM (cont’d) to sell off large quantities of helium to raise money to pay off debts led to a collapse in the price of helium as the product flooded the market. This caused other helium manufacturers to cease marketing helium because there was no profit in it. That subsequently resulted in a helium shortage on the worldwide market, though there was never any actual shortage of helium. Congress passed the Helium Stewardship Act in 2013. This allowed the BLM to sell helium at higher prices, preventing the government from undercutting private producers and encouraging more sources of helium production. • Helium is used in scuba diving. About 75% of the atmosphere is made up of nitrogen, which humans inhale with every breath. At high pressures, such as underwater below around 100 feet (30 meters), dissolved nitrogen can quickly build up in body tissues and cause fatal decompression illness, or dangerous bouts of “nitrogen narcosis,” similar to sudden extreme drunkenness. To get around the problems of breathing nitrogen, technical and commercial divers who plunge to depths of up to 400 feet (122 m) or beyond use breathing mixtures like “heliox,” in which the fraction of nitrogen in the air has been replaced with helium, which is easily compressed and non-toxic. • Why do you sound like Mickey Mouse when you inhale helium and then speak? It’s because when you talk, your vocal chords vibrate like guitar strings. The density of regular air makes the vocal chords vibrate at their regular speed. But helium is lighter than air, so the vocal chords don’t have to work as hard to vibrate, and they actually vibrate faster, causing the voice to be pitched high and squeaky.

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rugby-style game into the one that resembles American football today. Camp brought two key innovations to the game. The opening “scrummage” was eliminated, and a rule was introduced that required a team to give up the ball after failing to advance down the field a specific yardage. Camp also developed the quarterback position, lines of scrimmage and the scoring scale used in football today. Early games were controversial because of the high rate of injury. Even President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to ask collegiate teams to revise regulations to make the game less brutal. The committee overseeing the rules would later become known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Thanks largely in part to the popularity of college football, professional football began to gain traction with the public. The American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920. That“X” league would later become the THE FACTOR (continued): National Football League. The first televised • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have NFL game occurred in 1939. Eventually, abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies American to you! football’s popularity would explode. Cheerleaders were introduced to the game • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on in the 1960s. Currently, the Dallas Cowboy the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small threeCheerleaders are the most famous squad. Six masted vessel with square and triangular sails teams the NFLthem do not that inenabled to have sail cheerleaders: faster than their theprospective Chicago Bears, the Depending Cleveland Browns, theof victims. on the size Detroit Lions, the New York Giants, the Pittsthe ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 burgh Steelers, the Green Bay Packers. guns might beand mounted on the vessel. Football games typically around hours. • The word xenia has a last variety of 3meanings. Average attendance for an NFL game is 66,957 To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of spectators. hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown American hashome. become multibillionto those football far from To athe botanist, it’s dollar industry. What developed on college the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s county of Greene phenomCounty, campuses hasthe grown intoseat a worldwide a community about 21 miles (34 km) from enon. Dayton. • Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather. To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds. • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest. • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

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WAR SLANG • When speaking over a two-way radio, radio operators often need to spell things out. When using the alphabet, it can be difficult to tell the difference between similar-sounding letters such as “F” and “S” or “D” and “B.” In 1927, a radio lingo was adopted where words were substituted for letters to make communication clearer: Able for the letter A; Baker for B; Charlie for C. The letter R was represented by the word “Roger.” The letter “R” was also radio shorthand meaning “received.” When a pilot got instructions from the tower, he would say, “Roger” to indicate the message had been received. The phonetic alphabet was updated in 1957 and “Roger” as a stand-in for the letter “R” was replaced with “Romeo” but the word “Roger” by then had become such common parlance in aviation circles that the term stuck. When it comes to “Roger Wilco” – well, “willco” is radio shorthand for “will comply.” • George Baker was working as an illustrator for Disney when he was drafted during World War II. He was assigned to create animations for Signal Corps training films because of his artistic talent. On the side, Baker kept drawing humorous cartoons depicting the typical soldier in typical situations. Some of these were published in “Life” magazine, which brought him 3rd Quarter 2016 to the attention of the weekly Army magazine called Week “Yank.” 34The magazine hired Baker to do a regular cartoon strip for them. The strip August 14 -August 20 that Baker developed showed a luckless private 8 caught up in various misadnamed Page “Sad Sack” ventures. The strip became the magazine’s most popular feature because soldiers identified with the absurdities and humiliations of military life that Sad Sack dealt with. The comic strip led to a comic book, a radio show, and also a 1957 movie starring Jerry Lewis as the bumbling soldier. Today the term “sad sack” generally denotes any downtrodden or inept person (cont’d on next page)

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