Show helium process cuts cost of shenandoah of gas saves thousands of dollars ashing tro tiie the coming of the lie bruun eru un made dirigible 3 to the I 1 lilted slates states tills tilts fall all ill tin alue of that recent to alene non helium abas ns of hah if is koti possesses a r c binert lal monopoly the 3 iii A th Is 19 to become american properly property as u reparations payment will ill be aldun to america using hj drogen but upon its arriel it alit be inflated nith bell fiel lunt urn so important Is deemed the amer less supply of helium that a measure Is pending in congress to insure its and to prohibit bit its ex port ution 1 abe lie bureau of mines minei to branch of the department of tile in perlor atus us In trusted the bearch for helium and the working out of process tes for its reco recovery ery has just installed a new extraction plant at fort ort 1 I orth texas there in conjunct lion with the commercial development of the lie product the government carry forward tie new method filch Is to be turned over to the navy to operate lter later nhen demonstrated fully successful process of A plant hus has recently been installed V N J home of the nary navy air plant doah air in through the huge envelope of the Sherian donto and when the helium purity ij lowered to 87 per cent th through though ough admixture of the air the mixture Is taken out annl put pill into a refrigeration pi pl int and again separated helium 88 98 per cent pire ito 1 recovered with only I 1 per cent loss this new plant coot about but it has lies air dy demonstrated a paving of each time the gas Ts taken out and the cost of the ulab unused helium is etl Inin mated ted at 1 the tion estem enables helium formerly astol to be restored to its pristine purity and pumped into the for 2 sources of 0 helium sources Our reb of supply of helium are lo 10 texas OLIa oklahoma homa and hansa three states in which it nas ins originally found and more recently in utah ulah and alon mon tana according to dr C b lind of the bureau of mines TI tie a conditions regulate its it retention are not known unless helium Is found to exist in quantities of one half of f I 1 per cent mixed alth other biases development Is not considered worth flifle two per cent of helium in a uell ell Is the maximum helium Is perfectly inert chemi cill says doctor I 1 lind ind it wont burn or explode and it might even put out a gattoline gat fire 11 bile hydro en can be manufactured anywhere in the horld and Is obtain able the safety of helium makes it the more desirable helium wits first discovered in the sun in ISM doctor lind explains from the greek bord dellot if the sun it gets its name it na unit discovered on earth in 1895 an and d in the united states lu in nastuni uril gases in 1007 1107 the bureau of mince mines started helium work in 1917 as a war proposal prop cial hon lion |