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When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix / Musician
Men
Gas
Heavy
Helium
Call
Man Me Things
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The sun derives its energy from fusion reactions in which hydrogen is transformed into helium.
Raymond Davis, Jr. /
Fusion
Helium
Hydrogen
Reactions
Sun
Transformed
Derives
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Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
David Lee / Basketball Player
Helium
Liquid
Quantum
Belongs
Classical
Distinct
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I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix / Musician
Gas
Heavy
Helium
Call
Man Me Things
Saying
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Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're made out of exploding stars.
John C. Mather /
Exploding
Helium
Hydrogen
Stars
Bang
Big Bang
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He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.
Tom Kenny / Actor
Childlike
Helium
Elf
Grown
Sounds
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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Lynn Abbey / Author
Dense
Filled
Helium
Literature
Stories
Writing
Short Stories
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We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
Jill Tarter / Astronomer
Happens
Helium
Hydrogen
Inspiration
Long
Motivation
Begins
Mixture
Primordial
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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
David Mitchell / Novelist
Death
Helium
Human Condition
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Condition
Were
Human
Would
Maybe
Periodic
Reckon
Table
Where
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Tired of burning fossil fuel and polluting the planet? The moon is covered with helium 3, an isotope from the sun that is the perfect fuel for clean fusion reactors.
Homer Hickam / Author
Burning
Covered
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Fusion
Helium
Moon
Fossil
Polluting
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Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Space
Attractive
Elements
Fuel
Fusion
Helium
Hydrogen
Light
Nuclear
Permit
Ships
Speed
Approaching
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Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.
Sam Kean / Writer
Elements
Fuse
Helium
Hydrogen
Larger
Slightly
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The federal helium program sells vast amounts of the gas to U.S. companies that use it in everything from party balloons to MRI machines. If the government stops, no one else is ready.
David Fahrenthold /
Balloons
Gas
Helium
Machines
Sells
Vast
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You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
Kim Basinger / Actress
Anonymity
Clever
Helium
Your Lose People
Balloon
Manner
String
Therefore
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Some of the hydrogen in your body comes from the Big Bang, and when you see a kid walking down the street with a helium balloon, you can say, 'There goes some of the primordial universe.'
Jocelyn Bell Burnell /
Body
Helium
Hydrogen
Universe
Walking
Your Body
Balloon
Bang
Big Bang
Down
Street
Goes
Primordial
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Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.
Jill Tarter / Astronomer
Space
Galaxy
Gas
Generations
Giants
Helium
Hydrogen
Planets
Stars
Earlier
Rocky
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Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.
David Lee / Basketball Player
Discovery
Helium
Physics
Temperature
Low
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We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Carbon
Helium
Herbs
Humdrum
Hydrogen
Ingredients
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Spices
Bodies
Include
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The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy's ideas in favor of our own.
Rick Tumlinson /
Fads
Helium
Mars
Moon
Rockets
Tourism
Favor
Solar
Too Much Time
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I start my day with a hot water and lemon routine. I meditate. And I take my problems lightly, like my mother always said: treat them like helium balloons and let them go. I devour a lot of books to feed my mind.
Twinkle Khanna /
Balloons
Helium
Hot Water
Mother
Routine
Said
Water
Books
Feed
Devour
Lemon
Lightly
Meditate
Problems
Start
Treat
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I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.
Pras Michel / Rapper
Blame
Caught
Decipher
Gas
Helium
Young
Album
Anyone
Deliver
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
Sam Kean / Writer
Gas
Helium
Miners
Noble
Discover
Element
Existed
Quantities
Scientists
Underground
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A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.
Eliezer Yudkowsky / Writer
Clown
Helium
Math
Probability
Scientist
Theory
Worthy
Nowhere
Original
Coat
Discoveries
Wearing
Lab
Lecture
No Fun
Suit
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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
Francis William Aston / Chemist
Definite
Greater
Helium
Hydrogen
Long
Needs
Particular
Weight
General
Atomic
Chemical
Conclusions
Drawn
Explain
Nor
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When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
Jim Crace / Writer
Trust
Helium
Metaphor
Narrative
Novel
Pushing
Start Always Your
Balloon
Becomes
Boulder
Carries
Rest
Fills
Hold
Nerve
Start
Uphill
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After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.
Wolfgang Ketterle / Physicist
Analyzing
Earning
Helium
Hydrogen
Institute
Discovered
Emission
Laser
Stayed
Succeeded
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In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played on repeat at nearly every gathering I attended. And we didn't just listen to these records - we discussed them, the worlds they opened, novelistic and strange.
Carrie Brownstein / Musician
Gathering
Helium
Pirate
Attended
Nearly
Discussed
Trick
Mid
Opened
Pat
Repeat
Worlds
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Every time four protons are turned into a helium nucleus, two neutrinos are produced. These neutrinos take only two seconds to reach the surface of the Sun and another eight minutes or so to reach the Earth. Thus, neutrinos tell us what happened in the center of the Sun eight minutes ago.
Raymond Davis, Jr. /
Helium
Seconds
Sun
Center
Produced
Thus
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
Sam Kean / Writer
Atoms
Chemistry
Colossal
Helium
Hydrogen
Nine
Percent
Stars
Universe
Waste
Constituent
Element
Major
Periodic
Suspected
Table
Waste Of Time
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A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.
Steve Fossett / Businessman
Air
Ballast
Fuel
Gas
Helium
Night
One Day
Overboard
Sun
Surface
Great Deal
Requires
Throw
Uses
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