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Could a helium balloon float all the way up into space?

NO! all gas's volume depends on temperature, as the balloon goes up, its volume decreases, resulting in it no longer floating after a certain hight, after that, it will come down and expand again, repeating this process until it losses enough air to land, or another factor interferes with it.


Something you can fill a balloon with?

Balloons are filled with gas (such as helium), or a mixture of gasses (such as air) or hot gasses (such as hot air).Helium.


How is the alveolar surface area so large?

The alveoli are tiny little sacs with walls only one cell thick, and they fill all but the conducting portion of the lungs. Think about a single balloon filled with 1 liter of air. Now take 4 small balloons and fill them each with 250mL of air. The same amount of space will be taken up by the 4 smaller balloons as the 1 larger balloon, i.e. 1L, but the 4 smaller balloons have much greater surface area for gas diffusion.


What would happen if cool air was put into a hot air balloon?

The balloon would just move throughout the air as it normally does. The troposphere is where all weather occurs and all life is. Also, it is the first and lowest layer of our atmosphere. So, everyone lives in the troposhere, and nothing would affect the flight of the balloon. It would be almost impossible to reach the stratosphere in a hot air balloon.


Is Carbon dioxide filled with balloon a chemical change?

No. helium is released in outer air but does not lose or change its chemical formula

Related Questions

What are examples of air taking up space?

Air is a combination of many gases, all of which are matter. The definition of matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. The obvious example is blowing up a balloon. The air occupies the space within the balloon and when enough air is packed into the balloon the membrane of the balloon stretches. This is because no two particles are able occupy the same space at the same time so the particles in the air begin to take up space.


How can you prove air is matter?

The classical definition says anything that occupies space is matter. To prove air occupies space we can do a small experiment. Take a balloon and blow air in it. The balloon expands and this proves that air occupies space. And thus we can prove air is matter.


Does air in a balloon have no measurable mass?

No, air is matter and all matter takes up space therefore, having a mass. You can find it by subtracting the mass of the balloon from the total mass of the balloon and the air. (You will need a very accurate scale.)


Does all matters fills space?

Not all occupies space, because air does not take space.


How long does it take to fly all around the world in a hot air balloon?

3


How do the air particles in a balloon give it its shape?

The air particles inside a balloon exert pressure evenly in all directions against the walls of the balloon, causing it to inflate and take on its shape. The elasticity of the balloon material allows it to stretch in response to the pressure from the air particles, resulting in the balloon's shape.


What happens when you put a balloon in a jar then remove all the air?

If you put an inflated balloon in a jar and then remove the air from the jar the balloon will expand. Perhaps to the point of bursting, or to the point where it coats the entire inner surface of the jar.


Does air have have mass?

Yes. Mass is a property of matter. All matter has mass. Air is matter in the gaseous phase. Anything that takes up space has matter. An atom takes up space, and air is made of atoms. (Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen mainly..) . So since it takes up space, it has mass. You can visualize this by simply blowing up a balloon. The balloon is empty at first. As you inflate the balloon with air from your lungs, the flexible sides of the balloon must expand to accommodate the increased volume of air. The more air you put in, the harder the air presses against the sides of the balloon, and the firmer the balloon gets. Pretty soon the balloon has stretched as far as it can, and then >bang<! The pressure of air is too much, and it bursts. If your Basketball is "flat", it simply doesn't have enough air inside it to keep it firm. More air = more pressure. So you can see clearly that "air", even though it is invisible, does indeed have mass.


Did the Montgolfier Brothers invent anything but the hot air balloon?

no... they invented the hot air balloon and that's all.


Can you inflate a balloon in a bottle with a straw sticking out of the bottle why?

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.


Which weighs more a deflated balloon or inflated balloon?

An inflated balloon weighs more than a deflated one because the air inside adds mass to the balloon. When the balloon is deflated, it contains less air or no air at all, resulting in less weight.


Why doesn't cold air takes up space?

Cold air does take up space. All matter does.Cold air just takes up less space than warm air.