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    Helium basically is a colourless, odourless, tasteless, chemical element. It is one of the most unreactive noble gases, hence which makes it one of the slightest chemically-active elements based on the periodic table.

    The boiling point as well as the heating point of helium is the lowest amid all the elements, apart from in intense environment, it subsist only as a gas. At heat levels close to total zero, it is a superfluid, at virtually frictionless stage of substance with extraordinary properties.

    Helium is the second lightest element after Hydrogen; it is also the second most copious element present in the universe. It was first perceived in the year 1869 by French astronomer Pierre Janssen. He described it as a strange yellow spectral line cross in the light of solar eclipse. Helium was later on individually distinguished as a new element later on in the year 1869 by English astronomer Norman Lockyear.
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