Period 1 element (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic chemical element that heads the noble gas series in the periodic table and whose atomic number is 2. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions. Helium was discovered in 1868 by French astronomer Pierre Janssen, who first detected the substance as an unknown yellow spectral line signature in light from a solar eclipse. In 1903, large reserves of helium were found in the natural gas fields of the United States, which is by far the largest
Boiling Point (1990 film) Boiling Point (1990 film) Boiling Point, known in Japan as , is a 1990 Japanese film written by, directed by, and co-starring Takeshi Kitano. It was his second film as director and first film as a screenwriter. "Boiling Point" is seen as an important first step in his development as an editor and as a director. Ono Masahiko stars as a shiftless, inattentive young man, a member of a losing local baseball team, whose coach is threatened and attacked by a local yakuza. He teams up with a friend to go to Okinawa to purchase guns so they can get