How to Use helium in a Sentence

helium

noun
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  • During approach to the space station the next day, four more helium leaks were detected, along with degraded thrust in five aft-facing reaction control system jets.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • During their docking, the spacecraft experienced a number of helium leaks and failures of its thrusters—tiny engines the vehicle uses to maneuver through space.
    — Loren Grush / Bloomberg, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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

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