helium
noun
, ˈhēl-yəm\
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Related Coverage Party City said its total gross profit margin fell 0.2 percentage points to 40.6% in 2018 due to higher freight and distribution costs and increased pressure from commodity prices, including higher helium costs. — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, "Party City CFO to Leave for Edgewell Personal Care," 28 Feb. 2019 Many of the web searches referred to links on suicide and helium suppliers. — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, "Florida man stages suicide with 'CSI: Las Vegas' balloon scheme to make it appear as a murder, cops say," 19 July 2018 Made hot enough for long enough, hydrogen atoms can fuse together to form helium, like in the center of stars, releasing in the process a tremendous amount of energy. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: Trump administration must decide whether to back the biggest nuclear fusion project ever," 7 Mar. 2018 The wavelengths that were close to the energy required to drive helium's electrons from their normal energy state to a higher energy state were strongly bent. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, "Gas jets make beautiful lens for light we can’t normally focus," 21 Dec. 2018 Hydrogen glows red, helium glows yellow, and cyanogen glows green. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Why Is the 'Christmas Comet' Green?," 18 Dec. 2018 In universes with a weaker weak force, neutrons would decay more slowly, leading to more helium. — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, "Why Alternate Universes Might Also Host Life Around their Stars," 26 Sep. 2018 My parents were very focused on education, but growing up in that place, the helium plant was one of the biggest employers there. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "For some under-represented people in tech, life is getting better. For others, this is the ‘dark timeline.’," 5 Sep. 2018 There are considerations about keeping the blimp partially inflated to save on helium costs. — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, "‘Baby Trump’ blimp arrives on Vashon Island," 20 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'helium.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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