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Balloon boy hoax The volume of helium in the balloon has been estimated as being able to lift a total load, including the balloon material and the structure beneath it, of 65 pounds (29 kg) at sea level and 48 pounds (22 kg) at 8,000 feet (2,400 m).
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- In order to make the balloon float, we must fill it with a gas that is not as dense as the air that surrounds it. Helium is ideal because the molecules are spread out much more than the molecules in the surrounding air -- and is therefore lighter (fewer molecules means less weight for a given mass of gas). Moreover, the material used in helium-filled balloons (party balloons) is wafer-thin and extremely light.
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How long do latex balloons last? Quick Answer. Latex balloons filled with helium last between 12 to 48 hours, depending on the size of the balloons; if filled with Hi-Float they last about two to 14 days. Hi-Float is a liquid protective coating that is inserted into the balloon and spread around to prevent helium from escaping as quickly. Continue Reading.
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PHYS 205 Chapter 5 When the car you are riding in stops suddenly, heavy objects move toward the front of the car. Explain why a helium-filled balloon will move toward the rear of the car. E.6 The denser air pushes the less dense helium out of its way as the car and its contents slow to a stop. The air coasts into the front windshield while it pushes the helium balloon toward the rear window. 7. Water settles to the bottom of a tank of gasoline.
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Gastric Balloon Gastric balloon is a non-surgical solution for obesity to help patients with weight loss by reducing the size of the stomach. Weight loss surgeons insert a balloon into the stomach to limit the amount of food that can be eaten and help people loose excess weight if diet and exercise alone have failed.
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- Helium filled latex balloons only float for a couple of days because the Helium is constantly escaping through the walls of the balloon. Latex balloons are made of natural rubber. When natural rubber is formed into a latex balloon, the walls of the balloon inevitably have small microscopic pores or holes. Although these holes are too small to be seen by the human eye, they are about 1000 times larger than an extremely small Helium atom.
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- Next. When you let a Helium balloon free, it sets of upwards but gets lost in the sky, how far up does it go before it pops, and does it fall straight back down wherever it explodes.Follow.hen you let a Helium balloon free, it sets of upwards but gets lost in the sky, how far up does it go before it pops, and does it fall straight back down wherever it explodes. Add your answer.
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- Pour about an inch of liquid--half vinegar, half water--into the bottle. Use the funnel to fill the ballon half full of baking soda. (If you don't have a funnel, you can use a straw to load the balloon. Stick the straw into the baking soda, and put your finger over the top of the straw. Lift the straw out, put it into the balloon, and blow or tap gently.) Stretch the open end of the balloon over the neck of the bottle. Make sure it's on tight! Let the heavy end of the balloon dangle, so no baking soda goes in the bottle. Hold onto the ballon at the bottle neck, and pick up the heavy part of the balloon so that all the baking soda falls into the vinegar at the bottom of the bottle.
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- Hot air balloons fly because the air inside of the envelope is hotter than the outside air. By using propane-fueled burners, the air is heated, and the balloon ascends. To descend, the air inside the balloon must be cooled by either letting the envelope cool on its own or by opening the vent at the top of the envelope to let some of the hot air out.
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Air Has Mass, Basketball 1 When the molecules of a gas are heated, they move faster. 2  The faster moving molecules inside the balloon push against the material the balloon is made out of. 3  This push from the inside air overcomes the inward pull of the balloon, making the balloon get bigger. When the bottle is cooled, the molecules inside the bottle move slower, the slower moving molecules inside the bottle push less hard against the bubble film, and the outside air overcomes the push from the inside air, forcing the bubble down.
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Lesson Tutor : How Do Your Lungs Work The stretched balloon across the bottom of the bottle acts like a diaphragm. This is the flat muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity. This muscle forces air in and out of your lungs. Your lungs do not inflate or deflate by themselves ...
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- view results. 1  an empty thread spool. 2  a 4-inch piece of cardboard. 3  glue. 4  a pencil. 5  a balloon. 6  Glue the empty spool to the piece of cardboard. 7  Use the pencil to punch a hole in the cardboard, so it lines up with the center of the spool. 8  Take a huge breath and blow up the balloon. 9  Now, stretch the bottom of the balloon to the top of the spool.
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How Helium Balloons Work Since the bottle is full of air, you can imagine it will have a strong desire to rise to the surface. You can sit on the bottom of the pool with it, holding the string, and it will act just like a helium balloon does in air. If you let go of the string the bottle will quickly rise to the surface of the water.
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balloon balloon - large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air. 1  gasbag, envelope - the bag containing the gas in a balloon. 2  hot-air balloon - balloon for travel through the air in a basket suspended below a large bag of heated air. 3  lighter-than-air craft - aircraft supported by its own buoyancy.
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- Method. 1  Place the balloon over the opening of the empty bottle. 2  Fill the beaker or pot with water and place it on the hot plate. 3  Stand the bottle in the beaker or pot and turn the hot plate on.  Observe what happens to the balloon.
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Endoscopic Insertion of Gastric Balloon How is the procedure performed? Gastric balloon is placed into the stomach through the mouth with the help of a gastroscope that goes through the mouth and into the stomach. The balloon is then filled with 500-700 ml of fluid (saline) and a blue dye. The procedure is performed under sedation and takes 15-20 minutes.
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How long does a helium balloon last? Latex balloons will last about a day to a day and a half at best, unless treated with what the balloon industry calls Hi Float, which is a rubbery coating applied to the inside of a latex balloon prior to inflating. Then it will last for days as it slows the seep of helium through the balloon membrane.
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- The helium will be compressed, however, thus much more helium is required to increase the mass sufficiently to overcome the density of the surrounding air -- far more helium than is required in a normal helium-filled party balloon.
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- To make balloons float and to make your voice high. Helium is used in air tanks so you can breathe and it is also used in balloons, but if you breathe it in it shortens your oxygen. its used for balloons and deep sea diving. helium is a light gas.
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How Do Balloons Pop? Hmmm, I've been using the needle-through-balloon balloons, maybe they are just regular balloons and the name has me psyched but I only rarely have a failure, I can only remember one in the last 10 or so that I've done.f you put a piece of cellophane tape on the surface of the balloon, and jab the pin through the tape into the balloon, it won't pop (at least not right away). The tape keeps that initial crack from developing. The air will leak around the pin, or through the hole if the pin is removed.
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Hot air balloon A hot air balloon is a lighter than air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket, which carries passengers and a source of heat, in most cases an open flame. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the colder air outside the envelope. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed a
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- Hot air rises. The envelope traps a large bubble of hot air. When the air in the envelope is heated by the burner, the balloon will rise. When the air in the envelope is allowed to cool or if the hot air is vented (allowed to escape) from the top of the envelope, the balloon will descend. An altimeter (to measure altitude), a rate-of-climb meter, and an envelope temperature gauge are the only instruments used in the balloon.
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- It contained about three hundred and twenty cubic feet of gas, which, if pure hydrogen, would support twenty-one pounds upon its first inflation, before the gas has time to deteriorate or escape. The Balloon Hoax by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context.
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- With density being the ratio of mass per volume, the gas density of the balloon thus varies only with its volume (when mass is held constant). If we squeeze the balloon, we compress the air and two things will happen: 1  the air pressure in the balloon will increase.his in turn increases the rate at which the gas molecules bombard the skin of the balloon. Because the balloon s skin is elastic, it expands upon this increased pushing from inside, and the volume taken up by the same mass of gas increases with temperature.
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- While the molecular mass (and thus, per the ideal gas law, the density) of hydrogen gas is about half that of helium, what determines the buoyancy of a balloon is the difference between the density of the gas inside the balloon and the air outside.
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Wine Balloon on âShark Tankâ Gets Makeover, Now The Air Cork The Air Cork (Amazon). Wine connoisseur Eric Corti pitched his Wine Balloon product on Shark Tank. It’s a device that preserves the wine of an opened bottle by using a balloon. It protects wine from oxidation for 3 to 4 days. And the balloon inside the bottle does not affect the taste of the wine. You just lower the deflated balloon into the bottle until it reaches the wine and then squeeze the bulb pump to inflate the balloon. It seals the air tight within the bottle.