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Helium Definition

helium

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English

Chemical element
He Previous: hydrogen (H)
Next: lithium (Li)

Etymology

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (“sun”) (because its presence was first theorised in the sun's atmosphere).

Pronunciation

Noun

helium (countable and uncountable; plural heliums)

  1. (uncountable) A colorless and inert gas, and the second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602.
  2. (countable) A form or sample of the element.

Derived terms

terms derived from helium

Related terms

Synonyms

External links

For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/he.html (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)

Dutch

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Pronunciation

Noun

helium n.

  1. (chemistry) helium

Finnish

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Noun

chemical element
He
Previous: vety
Next: litium

helium

  1. (chemistry) helium

Declension

Declension of helium (type risti)
singular plural
nominative helium heliumit
genitive heliumin heliumien
partitive heliumia heliumeja
accusative helium heliumin heliumit
inessive heliumissa heliumeissa
elative heliumista heliumeista
illative heliumiin heliumeihin
adessive heliumilla heliumeilla
ablative heliumilta heliumeilta
allative heliumille heliumeille
essive heliumina heliumeina
translative heliumiksi heliumeiksi
instructive – heliumein
abessive heliumitta heliumeitta
comitative – heliumeineen

Limburgish

Pronunciation

Noun

helium n

  1. (uncountable) helium
  2. A part of helium

Inflection

Root singular Root plural Diminutive singular Diminutive plural
Nominative helium helia helieke heliekes
Genitive heliums helia heliekes heliekes
Locative helieës helieëser helieëske helieëskes
Dative¹ heliumme — helieke —
Accusative¹ helium — helieke —
  1. Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on: Helium

Wikipedia sv

Pronunciation

Noun

helium n.

Declension of helium
uncountable uncountable
Neuter indefinite definite
nominative helium heliumet
genitive heliums heliumets
  1. (chemistry) helium

 

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