{"id":28922,"date":"2025-09-30T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28922"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:19:19","slug":"how-much-helium-do-i-have-to-microdose-into-my-friends-food-before-he-starts-floating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/30\/how-much-helium-do-i-have-to-microdose-into-my-friends-food-before-he-starts-floating\/","title":{"rendered":"How much helium do I have to microdose into my friend&#8217;s food before he starts floating?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/how-much-helium.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/how-much-helium.png\" alt=\"How much helium do I have to microdose into my friend's food before he starts floating?\" class=\"wp-image-28917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/how-much-helium.png 703w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/how-much-helium-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How much helium do I have to microdose into my friend&#8217;s food before he starts floating?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PLEASE don&#8217;t try this. Not really sure how you&#8217;re envisioning this working, as helium is only solid at a temperature around absolute zero. But in gaseous form, the answer is an amount of helium that would cause death by hypoxia a long time before any floating happened. Estimates of number of balloons required to lift 100 pounds: https:\/\/www.uu.edu\/dept\/physics\/scienceguys\/2000July.cfm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASE don&#8217;t try this. Not really sure how you&#8217;re envisioning this working, as helium is only solid at a temperature around absolute zero. But in gaseous form, the answer is an amount of helium that would cause death by hypoxia a long time before any floating happened. Estimates of number of balloons required to lift &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/30\/how-much-helium-do-i-have-to-microdose-into-my-friends-food-before-he-starts-floating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How much helium do I have to microdose into my friend&#8217;s food before he starts floating?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28940,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922\/revisions\/28940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}