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Comment Re:Increase public awareness (Score 2, Informative) 501

>What exactly uses Helium that is all that important?
>* At extremely low temperatures, liquid helium is used to cool certain metals to produce superconductivity, such as in superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging. >Helium at low temperatures is also used in cryogenics.

Aside from all the scientific experiments that need the helium for cooling, I wonder how you could consider magnetic resonance imaging as not being important.

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