On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:26:24PM +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
> > Dumb idea time... Could I obtain hydrogen and helium by making a 
> > sealed
> > steel container, creating a good vacuum in it, and waiting for it to
> > fill up with hydrogen and helium from the atmosphere? How pure would 
> > it
> > be?
> 
> Definitely impractical, but fun.
> 
> You'd get Hydrogen, not Helium.And, given the vanishingly small 
> (literally) amount in the atmosphere you'd get  about none over any 
> sensible time period. But a fun game :-).

Hmm... could make for a neat toy. Think a balance beam, one side a solid
weight, the other side my evacuated and hermetically sealed cylinder.
Eventually they won't balance...

Good enough for a canada council for the arts grant application I think!

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