the decomposing banana releases methane gas. can you explain how to do the experiment?
A banana will slowly inflate a sealed balloon or plastic bag because it gives off gases (notably ethylene) as it ripens. However, if a banana is too ripe, it may oxidize and remove oxygen from the air.
When you place a balloon in a bottle and then try to blow it up, the air you exhale can't fully inflate the balloon because the bottle's volume restricts the airflow. The pressure inside the bottle increases as you try to blow up the balloon, making it difficult to inflate the balloon fully.
No, but you can build a snowman. Yes, you can inflate a balloon in a bottle, although it is more difficult than inflating a balloon that is not in a bottle. The only problem that this presents is that it is possible for the balloon to block the opening of the bottle so that air will be trapped between the balloon and the bottle, which would prevent the inflation of the balloon. However, if you use a drinking straw you can create an avenue for air to escape.
When a bottle-and-balloon system is placed in hot water, the air inside the bottle expands due to an increase in temperature. Since the bottle is sealed off from the outside, the expanding air has nowhere to go, causing the balloon to inflate as a result of the increased pressure inside the bottle.
A tight seal between the balloon and the neck of the bottle is important in order to prevent gas from escaping. This helps to build up pressure inside the bottle, ultimately allowing the balloon to inflate as gas is produced.
The balloon will inflate as the air inside the bottle warms up and expands, creating higher pressure in the bottle. This pressure pushes against the balloon, causing it to stretch and inflate. The energy transfers involved include the heat energy transferred from the hot water to the air in the bottle, then to the balloon, and finally to the elastic potential energy stored in the stretched balloon.
Yeast eats the sugar giving off CO2 which is a gas that will inflate the balloon. Added: But since carbon dioxide is heavier than air this balloon gas will never reach the 'top'
When the bottle is placed in hot water, the air inside expands due to the increased temperature. This causes the balloon to inflate as the air pressure inside the bottle increases.
because heat expands things... and the heat expands the air in the bottle and the air in the balloon... the only place for the air to go, since it cannot expand the bottle... is out into the balloon, increasing the pressure there and inflating the balloon. :-)
Yes this can be done but the process would be really slow. You can try adding some yeast to hydrogen peroxide and let the balloon be tied to the bottle containing that mixture. After couple of hours you will have inflated balloon.
Yes you can if all conditions were perfect. By that I mean that the bottle would have to be a near perfect vacuum by sucking out the air from the bottle with the straw. The vacated air from the bottle would be replaced by the baloon stretching to fill the space left by the air. You would have no need to blow into the baloon as the vacuum would do the work for you.
The hot water heats up the air inside the bottle, causing it to expand, forcing some of the air out of the bottle and into the balloon, causing it to inflate. The larger the bottle, the more air that will be pushed into the balloon. The air in the balloon will quickly cool and, since hot air is less dense and therefore rises, the cooler air is forced back into the bottle to be heated up. Eventually the air will be a constant temperature and the balloon will reach the limit of inflation. As the water cools, the air cools and the balloon begins to deflate.