Like, did someone just come across helium one day, not knowing what it was, and decided to start collecting it in containers? What about neon, hydrogen, and all the others? How did they know where to look, and even when found, how did they collect it without all the gas escaping into the air around them?
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Helium was first discovered by analyzing the spectrum of sunlight. That’s why it’s named after Helios the sun. It was thought that it only existed on the sun until they were doing checks on the spectrum going through different gases that came up from the earth and they discovered that the same lines appeared as what appeared in the sun.
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