Dirige - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dirigeDirige
A service for the dead in the Roman Catholic Church being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead of which Dirige is the first word a dirge...
Dirigible
Capable of being directed steerable as a dirigible balloon...
Dirigent
Directing...
Guide rope
A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length used to preserve altitude automatically by variation of the length dragging on the ground without loss of ballast or gas...
Helium
An inert monoatomic gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere of the sun and stars and in small quantities in the earths atmosphere in several minerals and in certain mineral waters It is obtained from natural gas in industrial quantities Symbol He atomic number 2 at wt 40026 C12011 Helium was first detected spectroscopically in the sun by Lockyer in 1868 it was first prepared by Ramsay in 1895 Helium has a density of 198 compared with hydrogen and is more difficult to liquefy than the latter Chemically it is an inert noble gas belonging to the argon group and cannot be made to form compounds The helium nucleus is the charged particle which constitutes alpha rays and helium is therefore formed as a decomposition product of certain radioactive substances such as radium The normal helium nucleus has two protons and two neutrons but an isotope with only one neutron is also observed in atmospheric helium at an abundance of 0013 Liquid helium has a boiling point of 2689deg C at atmospheri...
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