How to Use helium in a Sentence

helium

noun

• This same phenomenon is at work in neon signs, which are tubes of gases such as neon, helium and argon.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• The lightest stars fuse hydrogen to helium and stop there—the sun is more than four billion years old and is still burning its hydrogen.
  — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2020
• These stars were fashioned only from hydrogen and helium, the cosmos’s rawest materials.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Dec. 2020
• Her thesis argued that stars were primarily comprised of helium and hydrogen.
  — Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2021
• Plenty of those albums were Bee Gees records; Dahl used to inhale helium on the air to do a mocking imitation of the band.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• Researchers know that the sun is at least 98 percent hydrogen and helium, nature’s two lightest and most abundant elements.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• That left Exxon relying on helium, a relatively rare commodity, to shore up profits.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2020
• Rather than split atoms as in a fission reactor, a fusion reactor collides hydrogen isotopes together to produce helium and heat.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The finished cryogenic plant, built by contractor Air Liquide (bottom), will be the world’s largest helium-refrigeration unit.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
• Some researchers are also hopeful that Helium-3, a version of helium that is rare on earth but abundant on the moon, could be used to produce massive amounts of energy via nuclear fusion.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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 launch had been postponed multiple times over the past few weeks because of unfavorable weather conditions and a helium leak.
  — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
• Instead of circulating water, air, helium, or molten salts, the reactor uses a solid-steel monolith to house the core and absorb heat.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024