GEOUP VIII A

2nd lightest gas and carrier diluent for medicine
- Placed in BROWN CYLINDER

BROWN GREEN CYLINDER

Inhalation of pure helium

Advertising purposes:
- 2nd lightest noble gas
- Bright reddish orange light

the most widely distributed and most abundant of the
inert gases. It is present in the air (0.94% v/v) in natural gas,
occluded in minerals and dissolved in the oceans and all fresh
waters.

Used substitute to nitrogen gas, inert atmosphere for
pharmaceuticals

Investigated for its use as inhalational anesthetic

Least abundant noble gas
Used in production of flash lamps and arc lamps
Anesthetic Action

“Niton”
Inert gas given off by radium salts as decomposition product

It is itself radioactive, being a short half-lived alpha
emitter and this property has a limited utility in the
treatment of cancer