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Definition of Helium

Helium
Helium He"li*um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? the sun.] (Chem.) A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.

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- Helium (from Gr****: ἥλιος, romanized: helios, lit. 'sun') is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless...
- Helium-3 (3He see also helion) is a light, stable isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron (in contrast, the most common isotope, helium-4 has...
- are the naturally occurring members of group 18 of the periodic table: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and radon (Rn). Under...
- Liquid helium is a physical state of helium at very low temperatures at standard atmospheric pressures. Liquid helium may show superfluidity. At standard...
- there are nine known isotopes of helium (2He) (standard atomic weight: 4.002602(2)), only helium-3 (3 He ) and helium-4 (4 He ) are stable. All radioisotopes...
- Helium-4 (4 He ) is a stable isotope of the element helium. It is by far the more abundant of the two naturally occurring isotopes of helium, making up...
- A helium atom is an atom of the chemical element helium. Helium is composed of two electrons bound by the electromagnetic force to a nucleus containing...
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- three-quarters of the Sun's m**** consists of hydrogen (~73%); the rest is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen...
- protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus. They are generally produced in the process of alpha decay but...