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US
/ˈhiɫiəm/
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[ UK /hˈiːliəm/ ]
[ UK /hˈiːliəm/ ]
NOUN
- a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)
How To Use helium In A Sentence
- The envelope is a helium gas cell, with an air ballonet which is pressurized by a ballonet fan.
- Tara of Helium saw it coming and leaped for the tree toward which she had been moving, and the banth realized her intention and redoubled his speed. The Chessmen of Mars
- The most significant of these may be the use of helium-3 in spacecraft propulsion, in a fusion rocket.
- Helium balloons embossed with the words "great car for little money" promoted Volkswagen's newest four-seater model, Up!. Auto Makers Focus on Bright Side in Frankfurt
- Because it is chemically inert, helium was not identified on Earth until some time later, in 1895.
- Dynamic corneal thickness measurement contributes to the judgement of degree of corneal endothelium injury.
- The retinal pigment epithelium, which is the outer layer of the retina, fails to carry out its function as a result of which there is accumulation of the breakdown products.
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
- The relaxant activity was independent of the integrity of the vascular endothelium.
- However, the neovascular, exudative form results in serous or hemorrhagic detachment of retinal pigment epithelium and choroidal neovascularization.