eli5: Separating gasses

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How are gasses, such as helium, separated from other gasses and added to a canister?

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Helium is very light, so you can centrifuge it and keep the lighter gas. It also has a super-low boiling point, so you can cool it to cryogenic temperatures. All the other gasses will turn to liquid, that gas that’s left is helium.

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