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Sucking helium makes your voice ridiculously high-pitched, but what is the actual physics behind it?

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Sucking helium makes your voice ridiculously high-pitched, but what is the actual physics behind it?

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Sucking helium makes your voice ridiculously high-pitched, but what is the actual physics behind it?
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