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A mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other various gases. The only reason is floats is because the hot gas inside the balloon is lifting it up.
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Why does air in a balloon take up all the space in the balloon?
It's a gas. The air molecules are free to move around anywhere in the balloon.
If you wanted to make a balloon float in the air which gas should you use to fill the balloon?
Helium gas is lighter than air and hence balloons filled with helium will float in air.
What can you say about the gas inside a balloon?
The gas inside of a balloon is less dense than the air outside of it if the balloon floats. If the balloon does not float the density of the gas inside of it is equal to or more dense than that around it.
Gas that is less dense than air?
Helium is a gas that is less dense than air. This is why a balloon filled with helium rises when released.
What gas is used for a hot airballoon?
I am fairly sure that hot air balloons use normal air. They rely more on the idea of bouyancy rather than using specal gases, such as helium. The hot air inside of the balloon is more bouyant than the cold air outside of the balloon. So that makes the balloon ascend till the temperature of the air inside of the balloon is equal to the temperature of the air outside of the balloon. Then as the air inside the balloon gets colder, the balloon starts to descend.
Why does air in a balloon take up all the space in the balloon?
It's a gas. The air molecules are free to move around anywhere in the balloon.
If a balloon filled with an unknown gas floats in the air then what can be said about the gas in the balloon?
The gas in the balloon is lighter than air. It has a specific gravity relative to air of less tha one.
Why does the air change the shape and size of the balloon?
Because the air is coming inside the balloon.
Why would heating the gas in a hot air balloon make the balloon rise?
When the gas (air) in a hot air balloon is heated it becomes less dense. This makes the balloon more buoyant so it rises.Because heating the air inside the balloon makes it less dense than the air surrounding the outside of the balloon, so it will rise.
Is a hot air balloon gas?
No. A hot air balloon is a solid object. That is, the basket, the ropes, the burner and the envelope itself are not gasses. The air within the envelope is a gas, of course; heated atmospheric gasses in fact. But the balloon itself is not a gas.
When you blew a birthday balloon what gas will it be inside the balloon?
Imagine inhaling to blow in a balloon. You will take in air, hold it in your mouth and blow it into the balloon. Some of it will be the carbon dioxide you were exhaling but most of it will be the air you just breathed in. So, the gas inside the balloon will be a mixture, that is, air.
What would heating the gas in an air balloon make the balloon rise?
Simple...hot air rises..
Which gas is used to fill a hot air balloon?
A typical hot air balloon is filled with the same air we breath.
What gas put in a balloon would make it fall?
Any gas that is more dense than air.Answer:It is a bit more complex than that - an air filled balloon would still fall because air has the density of air. In a normal inflated balloon the air in the balloon is compressed and has a density more than uncompressed air. If the "balloon" were a plastic bag wiith no air pressure above the pressure of the surrounding air, the balloon would still fall as the combined (average) density of the balloon/bag system is greater than the surrounding air. Even if the balloon were filled with a gas with a lower specific gravity than air the balloon wll fall if the compressed gas density excedes that of the surrounding air or if the combined (average) density of the balloon/bag or balloon system is greater than the surrounding air.
Why a balloon filled with hydrogen gas floats in air?
bcoz hydrogen gas is less denser than air and is exerts buoyant force on balloon
Ideal gas law to explain why a hot air balloon floats?
We know from the ideal gas laws that when you heat a gas under constant pressure, it will expand. (In a hot air balloon, the air that is heated is not in a rigid container, but in a balloon that expands with the expanding gas; the pressure it is under is only the atmospheric pressure.) The expanded gas will then have a lower density and will therefore be bouyant in air, and therefore able to lift a balloon.
Is a hot air balloon a solid or gas?
It's a gas
