Mineral Species containing Helium (He)

**Helium (He) Element Properties**
Atomic Mass	4.002602
Atomic Number	2
Name Origins	Greek, helios = "sun."
Year Discovered	1895
Discovery Credits	Isolated in 1895 by Sir William Ramsay at London, UK, and independently by P. T. Cleve and N. A. Langlet at Uppsala, Sweden.
Remarks	Colorless, odorless gas. Unreactive chemically. Used in deep-sea diving, weather balloons, and low temperature research instruments. Most natural sources of helium come from natural gas deposits where He is present from the alpha particle decay of heavy radioisotopes of U and Th and their daughter products.
References	Emsley, J., 1991; THE ELEMENTS : Sec. Ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 251 p.
See Also	WebElements, ChemiCool

Atomic Mass

4.002602

Atomic Number

2

Name Origins

Greek, helios = "sun."

Year Discovered

1895

Discovery Credits

Isolated in 1895 by Sir William Ramsay at London, UK, and independently by P. T. Cleve and N. A. Langlet at Uppsala, Sweden.

Remarks

Colorless, odorless gas. Unreactive chemically. Used in deep-sea diving, weather balloons, and low temperature research instruments. Most natural sources of helium come from natural gas deposits where He is present from the alpha particle decay of heavy radioisotopes of U and Th and their daughter products.

References

Emsley, J., 1991; THE ELEMENTS : Sec. Ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 251 p.

Symbol	Isotope Mass	Isotope Nuclide Number	Isotope Number	Natural Abundance	Half-life	Half-life Units	Decay Mode	Decay Mode MeV	Decay Mode %
He	3.01603	3	2	0.0001%		Stable
He	4.0026	4	2	99.9999%		Stable

There are no minerals containing Helium (He)