How does helium change your voice?

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Part two on the chemistry of helium! Now to the question you've all been wondering, how does helium change your voice? This week, Melissa and Jam explore this mystery, which begs a lot of other questions. What even is the human voice? What's it made up of? And how does just introducing a gas like helium affect it at all? Let's find out together!

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References from this episode

1. Helium: Its Discovery and Applications – Locker
2. We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out? - Greshko
3. Introductory Physics I - Brown
4. Helium beer: prank or possible? - American Chemical Society
5. Organic Chemistry, Edition 11 - Solomon
6. Why does inhaling helium make one's voice sound strange? - Scientific American
7. Adam Savage Goes High and Low - Mythbusters

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