How to Use helium in a Sentence

helium

noun

• At the end of our sun’s life, too much helium will build up in the core.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• The fusing helium sends a shock wave deep into the dwarf’s core.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• The cause is the same as the last couple of delays: a leak of helium from the craft’s service module.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 22 May 2024
• Beneath the swirling storms of Jupiter or Saturn’s hazy cloud tops, where helium drops from the sky.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• The other is the high-pressure test in which helium is pumped through the system to see if gas leaks out.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• The views on just what the root cause is and the physics of the deorbit burn needs of the thrusters and helium leaks are the items holding up the decision.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• The vessel’s tech is at the bleeding edge, too, with helium being the main source of fuel.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2022
• In the Falcon 9, helium is the gas of choice to pressurize the propellant tank.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• The helium balloon flight isn't the only reason Blaine has been in the news in recent years.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2020
• About 17 Earth-masses of the core are made of ice and rock – the rest is a hydrogen and helium-based fluid.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
• There are two stable types of helium: helium-3 and helium-4.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• The fusion of two hydrogen atoms to make helium is the main process that powers the sun and other stars.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• Inside this tube is a gas, such as helium or argon, with a wire running along the axis of the tube.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• In this case, the part that isn't working is about 3 inches long and keeps helium from flowing back out of the rocket.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
• The plan was for the balloons, filled with helium and a small amount of sulfur dioxide, to float high into the stratosphere.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
• Eventually, the helium in a red giant's core will be spent, and the core will shrink again.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
• More tees — the Cramps, the Misfits, Minor Threat — hung from the ceiling like concert merch high on helium.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• The first stars in the universe would have been blazing with heat and only made of hydrogen and helium.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• Like the Macon and Akron before it, the Pathfinder models will run on lighter-than-air helium.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 June 2022
• The other is in a gilded frame and hangs behind the easel — not just on the wall but skied, way up at the edge of the ceiling, like a helium balloon floating away.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• The evidence comes in the form of isotopes of noble gases like helium and neon.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Aug. 2022
• And perhaps that made the hype for this special feel special: All that helium inside the balloon.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• However, he was filled with air and not helium; instead of soaring above the New York City streets, he was held up by stilts.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• Stores of helium, a precious resource, have been overtaxed on the moon, and few lifeforms remain on earth.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
• But in the wake of the launch scrub, Boeing engineers saw signs of a small helium leak in the Starliner's propulsion system.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 1 June 2024
• There are similarities, though; both yachts are powered by helium blimps and can take to the sky or sea.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2022
• When Tchernichovski opened the door to the room where they were kept, a wall of sound tumbled over us, like a rock-concert crowd on helium.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• For instance, if the strength of the nuclear force had been just a little greater, all of the hydrogen in the early universe would have fused to form helium.
  — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2021
• However, the Falcon 9 launch was stopped just over two minutes before launch due to a helium leak on the rocket's first stage.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Loosely cover various sizes of either mylar or latex balloons (fill them with helium to float on their own) with sheets of sheer white cloth.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024