Hetha The Alchemical Wizard With Helium Magic – Element 2 – Magical Elementals Chemistry Fantasy Series

Helium

This is the front side of the game card for Hetha The Wizard With The Helium Tipped Staff. Click the pic to take a look at all the fun info on the back. Use it as a memorization tool, a trading card or as science class prizes and rewards.

Get the single element book – Helium Presented by Hetha the Wizard

1 – https://www.utoledo.edu/nsm/ic/elements/helium.html

2 – https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/2/helium

3 – https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Helium#:~:text=Helium%20is%20an%20electrical%20insulator,He%20atom%20of%20an%20electron).

4 – https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Chemistry/Introductory_Chemistry_(CK-12)/06%3A_The_Periodic_Table/6.06%3A_Nonmetals#:~:text=Helium%20is%20one%20of%20the,noble%20(or%20inert)%20gases

5 – https://brainly.com/question/2203667#:~:text=Explanation%3A,attributes%20typically%20associated%20with%20metals.

6 -­ https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/researchers-find-super-solid-by-looking-at-a-normal-solid/

7 – https://phys.org/news/2016-03-helium.html

8 – https://phys.org/news/2015-08-unbearable-helium-problem.html

9 – https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/sun-helium-wavelength-aia-304/

10 – https://www.acs.org/greenchemistry/research-innovation/endangered-elements/helium.html

11 – https://geology.com/articles/helium/

12 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_helium

13 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium

14 – https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-origin-of-earths-helium/

Links and Notes for Hetha’s chemistry inspired magical abilities:

Helium basics (element, properties, why Hetha’s eyes are “gas-flame blue”)

• Helium – Wikipedia
• Helium | Britannica
• Helium – Royal Society of Chemistry Periodic Table

Why helium is a noble gas / non-reactive (“displacement, not bonding” magic system, and Mordavek’s reactive compounds by contrast)

• Why Are Noble Gases Unreactive? – WestAir
• Why Don’t Noble Gases Bond? – Study.com
• Chemistry of Helium (Z=2) – Chemistry LibreTexts

Buoyancy and density (Hetha lifting Pim, herself, and Mordavek)

• Lifting gas – Wikipedia
• Soaring with Helium – McGill Office for Science and Society
• Helium Flotation – How Helium Balloons Work – HowStuffWorks

Solid helium / “solidified helium crystal” in the wand

• Solid Helium – ScienceDirect overview
• Liquid helium – Wikipedia
• The Liquid-Solid Transformation in Helium near Absolute Zero – Physical Review

Where helium comes from / industrial use (the refinery, pressurized canisters, and gas-works imagery of Thornmere and Caldervane)

• Helium in Natural Gas – Occurrence and Production (PDF)
• How Helium is Made – Made How
• How is Helium Gas Obtained? – Peak Scientific

Author’s Fantasy License:

Hetha’s crystal is solid helium but real solid helium needs enormous pressure and cryogenic cold so her crystal would not remain solid at higher temperatures. Regarding the “molecular displacement” climax in Chapter 9: real helium is prized precisely because it doesn’t bond or interact with much of anything (that’s what the noble-gas source links above explain), so using it to physically shove reactive compound molecules out of a crystal lattice by brute density is a fun magic-system extrapolation rather than something with a direct real-world mechanism.