Helium

...the French-Swiss border, was restarted 10 days ago after being shut down for more than a year while engineers repaired damage caused by a helium leak when it was first switched on in September last year. "The machine is working like a...

In this article: CERN, Champagne, Big Bang, Boson, Speed of light, and Positron

...within the LHC probably aren't up to carrying the necessary loads, so in order to avoid any further electro-blast superfluid helium explosion unpleasantnesses - of the type which crippled the colossal machine last year - there will...

In this article: Champagne, Boson, Superfluid, Stephen Hawking, Dell, and IBM

...people checked in and were ready to get moving at 7 a.m. at a parking lot at the corner of State and Harrison. A semi with tanks of helium sat in the middle of the strangely deserted downtown lot. Surrounding it were the familiar faces of...

In this article: Chicago, Susan Boyle, NIU, Northern Illinois University, Illinois, and Northern Star

Three helium-filled balloons floated in the living room of Sabino and Maribel Quijano's Apartment 21, overlooking Mount Pleasant Street NW. One story above them in Apartment 31, Buena Flor Guzman and Hayde Constanza moved to salsa music...

In this article: Mount Pleasant and Washington, D.C.

...and Ronald McDonald this year, among others, measure several stories tall and wide and are filled with thousands of cubic feet of helium. Each balloon is tethered to several human handlers - the number depends on the size and shape of...

In this article: Macy's, Physics, Broadway, Springfield, and Graduate Center

...because the United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say. The ingredient is helium 3, an unusual form of the element that is formed when tritium, an ingredient of hydrogen bombs, decays. But the government mostly...

In this article: Homeland Security Department, Brad Miller, United States, Banana, Neutron, Plutonium, Uranium, Litter, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

...History on Wednesday, but soon they'll be flying high above the city -- thanks to a lot of helium. "Spidey is about 35,000 cubic feet of helium," Hall said. "We have 35 smaller balloons. Those are all 5,000 to 12,000 cubic feet. This...

In this article: E mail, New York City, Spider-Man, Museum of Natural History, and Mickey Mouse

...Kansas and Texas to Linde's helium production facility in Otis, Kansas - the world's second largest helium plant. After the helium is purified in Otis, it is liquefied and trucked across the country to Linde's plant in Middlesex, New Jersey.

In this article: Macy's, The Linde Group, New York City, Spider-Man, Sustainable development, Thanksgiving, and Manhattan

...- some of them 50 feet long - were damaged and had to be replaced. An electric arc punctured the container holding the liquid helium used to keep the collider at a temperature colder than outer space for maximum efficiency. Six tons of...

In this article: Physics, Big Bang, and Michigan State University

...later, an electrical fault in one of the connections between superconducting magnets caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak into the tunnel. Liquid helium is used to cool the LHC to its operating temperature of 1.9 kelvin (-271C; -456F).

In this article: Big Bang, Physics, Boson, Speed of light, and Particle