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How to pronounce helium in American English
“helium” pronunciation by American speakers
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helium remember that's how it was discovered helium we didn't know we had helium here it
NASA
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this but we have liquid helium which gets delivered to us by CERN and liquid helium
NSF
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It's mostly hydrogen and helium.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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