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What happens if you inflate a balloon in space?
When you blow up a balloon on Earth, the air pushed into the balloon is at a higher pressure than the air that surrounds it (1 atm). The air molecules in this space balloon would expand at an extremely rapid rate, quickly pushing the rubber walls past their elasticity limits, causing the balloon to explode.
Can you let a balloon go in space?
A helium-filled balloon can float very high up into the atmosphere, however, it cannot float up into outer space. The balloon can only rise up until the atmosphere surrounding it has the same weight as the helium in the balloon. This happens at about a height of 20 miles (32 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
Do balloons reach space?
As a balloon ascends, the pressure of the surrounding air drops while the helium inside expands. Toy balloons burst at around 10km, while professional meteorological balloons reach heights of 30km. So there’s no chance of balloons entering the vacuum of space.
How would a balloon act in space?
A helium-filled balloon can float very high up into the atmosphere, however, it cannot float up into outer space. The air in Earth’s atmosphere gets thinner the higher up you go. The balloon can only rise up until the atmosphere surrounding it has the same weight as the helium in the balloon.
Will a balloon float in space?
A helium-filled balloon can float very high up into the atmosphere, however, it cannot float up into outer space. The air in Earth’s atmosphere gets thinner the higher up you go. This happens at about a height of 20 miles (32 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
What would happen if you popped a balloon in space?
Air Pressure in a Vacuum. The interesting thing about this question isn’t what would happen if you popped a balloon in space, but whether you would even be the one to do the “popping”. When you blow up a balloon on Earth, the air pushed into the balloon is at a higher pressure than the air that surrounds it (1 atm).
Why doesn’t the balloon inflate when you let go?
This is because you have created high air pressure inside the balloon and when you let go, the high pressure air flows out of the balloon into the low air pressure air in the room. TAKEAWAY: Air likes to flow from high to low pressure. When you try to inflate the balloon inside the bottle without a hole, it does not work.
What happens when air is pushed into a balloon?
As more atmospheric air is pushed into a restricted place, the number of collisions between air molecules will increase, thus creating more pressure, and pushing the walls of the balloon outwards.
What happens when you pump electrons into a deflated balloon?
If I use a Van De Graff generator to pump electrons into a deflated balloon, eventually negative charge will start to build up inside the balloon. Assume the mouth of the balloon is sealed so air can not enter or exit the balloon.