where can this chemical element be extracted from?
Natural gas
Helium
This showed that despite its overall rarity on Earth, helium was concentrated in large quantities under the American Great Plains, available for extraction as a byproduct of natural gas.
where does the world's helium come from Most helium in the universe is helium-4, the vast majority of which was formed during the Big Bang what is helium? It  is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2 who was the first to discover this element? It was first detected  by Georges Rayet, Captain C. T. Haig, Norman R. Pogson, and Lieutenant John Herschel, and was subsequently confirmed by French astronomer, Jules Janssen where is this first person from? Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet was a French astronomer is there anything else that he has discovered apart from the element? Yes, he discovered Wolf–Rayet stars together with Charles Wolf
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Helium [SEP] Extraction and use
After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72% nitrogen, 15% methane (a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen), 1% hydrogen, and 12% an unidentifiable gas. With further analysis, Cady and McFarland discovered that 1.84% of the gas sample was helium. This showed that despite its overall rarity on Earth, helium was concentrated in large quantities under the American Great Plains, available for extraction as a byproduct of natural gas.