Helium is used in air-ships and balloons because the chemicals mixed together to make the gas, float and when used inside airships and balloons they float, and when you breathe it in it causes your voice to go VERY high pitched.
Helium is used in balloons because it is much less dense than air, allowing the balloons to float and is completely nontoxic and nonflammable unlike hydrogen, which is otherwise a superior lifting...
I would like to explain that air balloons are meant to float in air, which requires that a very light gas should be used. Of course, Hydrogen gas is the lightest gas, but it is extremely flammable...
Hydrogen was used in blimps and other floating things like weather balloons in the early 1900s. Until the Hindenburg disaster, where a hydrogen filled blimp blew up. This is because hydrogen is...
Helium is used to fill balloons instead of oxygen or hydrogen is because helium is lighter than air while oxygen and hydrogen are denser so they do not make the balloon float in the air because of...