He
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3.7
A very light colorless gas used to fill balloons and cool scientific equipment
- noun
- /hiː/
- Specialized
:
He
Synonyms
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3.3
A very light, colorless gas that people use to fill balloons and for science
is the chemical symbol form used as a short written label
Idioms
he who smelt it dealt it
- Baby Talk
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9.9
A joking way to say the person who first noticed a bad smell caused it
he who said the rhyme did the crime
- Informal
9.9
Saying a rhyme to blame someone shows you are the guilty person
Compounds
he-huckleberry
- Specialized
9.9
A bush with many branches that loses its leaves each year and has small white bell-shaped flowers
Surface Forms
He singular
Etymology
He is the chemical symbol for helium, a name that comes from Greek Helios, meaning 'sun', because scientists first found the gas in the light of the sun. The symbol He keeps that name, so when you see He on a balloon or in a lab it means the very light gas helium that makes balloons float and helps cool scientific equipment.