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 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 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
• 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
• Hanging above that was a hair dryer that had been used for warming up equipment that had been cooled in liquid helium.
  — Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• This evening, a bunch of helium balloons was tied to a gate and there were children bouncing on an inflated castle, screams.
  — Claire Keegan, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• In 50 years a kilogram of plutonium will amass around 0.2 liter of helium.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• To chill them, the collider uses 150 tons of liquid helium.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
• At that point, the universe is mostly hydrogen gas, and some helium and dark matter.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
• The helium legend stems from a 1977 game between the Raiders and Houston Oilers, who were suspicious because of the hang time Guy was getting on his punts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
• Piccard vented excess helium, to control the rate of climb.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Scientists still know little about how – some 200 million years after the Big Bang – a dark soup of hydrogen and helium formed the first stars.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2023
• This means that an alpha particle is a helium atom without the electrons.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• The researchers started by shooting a laser pulse at an aluminum plate inside a chamber filled with helium.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
• Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, that helium builds up in the core, getting in the way of efficient hydrogen fusion reactions.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• This collision has great enough force to form a new element: helium.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024