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"Lift" is pretty much defined as the difference in weight of equal volumes of the lifting gas (helium or hot air) and the ambient air. As a comparison, a typical density of air is about 0.00018 g/cm3. At the same temperature and pressure, air would be about 0.00128 g/cm3. The difference is 0.00128 - 0.00018 = 0.0011 g/cm3. So 1 cm3 of helium can lift about 0.0011 g. Scaling that up, 1 m3 of helium could lift about 1.1 kg. To achieve equal buoyancy, the air would have to be heated to about 1850 °C. Normal operating temperatures for hot air balloons are closer to 120 °C. At this temperature, the air density is about 0.00090 g/cm3, so the lift would be about 0.00128-0.0090 = 0.00038 g/cm3 so by comparison, helium would be 0.0011/0.00038 = 2.9 times the lift of hot air.

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