Why is there a helium shortage?

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I live near a business that has tank farms and piping for pressurized gases. They provide a lot of oxygen for health care use. If they can “manufacture” a gas, why can’t they make more helium?

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Oxygen, Helium and Nitrogen Gases are not manufactured they are refined from something that contains them. They don’t “make” Helium, because Helium is a basic element. In most cases they get Helium as a by-product of natural gas refining.

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