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Liquid helium covered surfaces are indispensable in experiments with atomic hydrogen gas (H) at low temperature (T ≲ 1 K). Helium is used because H does not dissolve in this liquid, it is chemically inert and offers the weakest concievable atom-surface interation to the H atoms. These properties enable confinement of H gas while surface adsorption is unimportant except at the lowest temperatures. Therefore helium films are very effective in supressing massive surface catalized recombination in which solid molecular hydrogen is formed.
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Walraven, J.T.M. (1991). Scattering of Atomic Hydrogen from the Surface of Liquid Helium Films. In: Wyatt, A.F.G., Lauter, H.J. (eds) Excitations in Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Quantum Fluids. NATO ASI Series, vol 257. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5937-1_49
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