noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
liquid
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Obviously there is a price to be paid in holding the liquid helium temperatures.
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The Kamikaze: One part liquid helium , two parts prussic acid.
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Supplies of liquid helium are an absolute necessity in many modern science laboratories.
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These micro-refrigerators are commercially available, and avoid the explosion hazard of liquid hydrogen and the expense of liquid helium .
■ NOUN
balloon
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Visual effects feature largely in this community arts venture, and have included helium balloons and fireworks.
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People left the auditorium that morning trailing their doubts behind them like children dragging exhausted helium balloons .
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I wish people would stop buying helium balloons and letting them go.
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Breastfeeding does perky things to some women's statistics, but it left mine looking like two well-past-their-sell-by-date helium balloons .
■ VERB
make
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And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in addition there remained the puzzle of how the helium came to be in the springs.
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However, the story can be simplified without losing its essence by neglecting the helium for the time being.
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The job is made more difficult now because of self-sealing materials and the use of helium .
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The Kamikaze: One part liquid helium , two parts prussic acid.
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The two orbiting electrons of the helium atom form a shell.
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These solar gases contain a large amount of helium , the second most abundant element in the Sun.
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Typically, the fuels are isotopes of the three lightest elements, hydrogen, helium , and lithium.
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Uranium has two radioactive isotopes, each of which decays to an isotope of lead and helium .