Inhale perfluorobutane if you want a voice even deeper than sulphur hexafluoride offers

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Seconded.

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Yeah, it is a deep voice; but it is no Barry White.

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Fyi inhaling helium and other gasses like these can potentially be dangerous, at a minimum can make you pass out but for the heavier gasses if you don’t purge your lungs afterwards it can cause asphyxiation

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Does that involve hanging upside down?

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I think leaning forward will do if you really wanted to be on the safe side but just deeply exhaling a few times would be more than sufficient :slight_smile:

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<basso profundo>
I’ll stick to uranium hexafluoride, thanks!
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My understanding is that the gas doesn’t actually make your voice deeper, it just changes the timbre, muting the upper harmonics, and emphasizing the lower frequencies. But those were already there. So it doesn’t make your voice deeper (or more “manly”, whatever that means), it just shows you how deep your voice actually goes. Very cool, in any case.

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I heard Barry White inhaled that stuff once but when he started singing it awoke the Great Old Ones.

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Still better than the brown note…

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Walrus of the Deep.

Yikes.

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I think I went to high school with that guy. Hasn’t changed a bit.

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and it’s 8860 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2!

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Yup – Lower speed of sound from the denser gas changes the frequencies that resonate in your mouth/throat to the lower ones. But they were always there, as you say.

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Sadly, Thurl Ravenscroft isn’t around to give a real demo of this stuff. Probably’d be so low only elephants could hear it :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Well, it depends a lot. The thing is, Fluorine is extremely reactive. Fluorination is stronger than oxidation. But this also means that once Fluorine has reacted with something, it takes a lot of energy to dislodge it, so the resulting compound is very inert. So, something like Dioxygen Difluoride that can break apart easily in Fluorine and Oxygen to then go and fluorinate/oxidate everything in sight is a nightmare, but as a contrast PTFE is relatively safe as cooking pot liner.

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