Helium is the second lightest element. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.  Helium is present in dry air at a concentration of 0.0005%.  Its principal source is natural gas wells where the helium is extracted from the crude natural gas stream and purified. Helium can be stored and shipped either as a gas or a cryogenic liquid. Also, its low specific gravity and nonflammability allow its use in lighter-than-air applications such as the filling of balloons and blimps.

Bayview Balloons carries Dry Ice in pellet form.  All Dry Ice is packaged in Four Pound (4lb) increments. Contact Us today for more information.

Applications

Dry ice is commonly used to package items that need to remain cold or frozen, such as ice cream, without the use of mechanical cooling. In medicine it was used to freeze warts to make removal easier,[8] although that application is now done with the use of liquid nitrogen. In the construction industry it is used to loosen floor tiles by shrinking and cracking them, as well as to freeze water in valveless pipes to allow repair. In laboratories, a slurry of dry ice in an organic solvent is a useful freezing mixture for cold chemical reactions.