Give reasons why helium is preferred to hydrogen for filling weather balloons.

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Helium gas has replaced hydrogen in weather observation balloons due to explosive nature of hydrogen gas.Often, the balloons containing hydrogen catch fire, so non- explosive helium gas is used instead.

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