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Comment by cubefox

12 hours ago

The reason helium can't be produced chemically (like hydrogen can be produced e.g. from water) is that there are no natural chemical compounds which contain helium. That's because it doesn't form those compounds in the first place, since it's a noble gas.

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Tangurena2  11 hours ago

Not at any temperature nor pressure found on Earth:

> These could exist in planets like Neptune or Uranus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_compounds

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