An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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liquid helium
  هلیوم ِ آوه  
heliom-e âvé
Fr.: hélium liquide  

The state of helium (4He) below its boiling point of 4.2 K. Its normal form is called → helium I, but converts into superfluid → helium II below 2.17 K (→ lambda point).
Liquid helium is colorless and transparent so that it is impossible to see the surface of the liquid with the naked eye. Helium was first liquefied in 1911 by the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1936), Physics Nobel Prize 1913.

See also: → liquid; → helium.