How to make a balloon float
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(261 votes)
Published: Feb 14, 2009 12:35 p.m.
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Welcome to my first egg. Sorry that I dont have any pictures,but this is fairly simple.
Materials needed:
1. one standard size balloon
2. one 2 liter soda bottle
3. water
4. 25% sodium hydroxide(drain cleaners,oven cleaners,ect.)
5. 12x12 sheet of aluminum foil
6. ice
7. one pair of rubber gloves
8. pan large enough to place the bottle in and tall enough to go half way up the bottle
9. funnel
SAFETY NOTICE!
1. NO SMOKING!! What you are creating is hydrogen gas,it is extremly explosive! (my fellow pyros keep this in mind)
2. DO NOT inhale this gas,it will not make you talk like a martian or a chipmunk,that is helium
Proceadure:
1. pull on the balloon some to make it more pliable
2. put the funnel in the mouth of the bottle then fill the bottle about half way with water
3. put ten tablespoons of the sodium hydroxide into the bottle (make sure you have your gloves on) if using a liquid caustic substance,fill the bottle about 1/4th of the way then fill with water to the half way mark
4. stir this mixture or put the cap back on the bottle and give it a good shake,remove the cap
5. place the bottle in the pan and fill with ice (this will help keep things cool when the reaction starts)
6. tear the aluminum foil into tiny strips,about 1/4"x1" or smaller
7. put all of the aluminum foil strips into the bottle
8. place the balloon over the mouth of the bottle
When the reaction starts the ballon will fill with hydrogen gas. This should only used with a standard size balloon. Once the balloon is filled you may remove it. Mylars may be a little too much to fill unless you can rig up some type of pump. Enjoy! |
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 | Feb 14, 2009 1:10 pm -
Thx, pictures would be nice,
but it’s so simple, and good info I give you a 5* |
 | Feb 14, 2009 1:29 pm -
Did he not just tell us how to make Hindenburg bombs? |
 | Feb 14, 2009 1:48 pm -
LoL@ Hindenburg bombs...
That is pretty cool. I like it.
Pics would have been nice, but you explained the procedure very well. 5* |
 | Feb 14, 2009 2:23 pm -
Quote: Did he not just tell us how to make Hindenburg bombs?
Go back to history class, n00b. What he posted is:
Quote: How to make a balloon float
Many gasses are combustible, including the the gas inside of the blimp you’re talking about. |
| Feb 14, 2009 2:36 pm -
Noob? i think not, Back when i was in school that what we called them, So STFU,. Nice egg pics are a plus but w/e |
 | Feb 14, 2009 3:04 pm -
LOL blimp -.- its a zepplin |
| Feb 14, 2009 3:04 pm -
4* btw pics would be cool |
 | Feb 14, 2009 4:28 pm -
Back when you were in school, they taught you grammar too. You could use that.
Good egg, but the list of steps would have been easier to follow with pictures or more details. 4* |
 | Feb 14, 2009 5:01 pm -
had no idea that the gas made with drano, water and tinfoil was hydrygen. i thout it was just hot oxygen or cabondyoxied. pics wernt realy nessesery |
 | F b 14, 2009 6:09 pm -
I gave it a four. Not bad at all, I’d just prefer it if the lists were spread apart more and were made from proper sentences. I’d also appreciate pictures but, as above people stated, they aren’t really necessary. |
 | Feb 14, 2009 8:05 pm -
Kind of poorly written.
And no pictures...
So, 2* |
 | Feb 14, 2009 8:12 pm -
not bad 7* my man |
| Feb 14, 2009 8:54 pm -
^^^
7 lol? |
 | Feb 14, 2009 10:36 pm -
4*, not bad at all. Good job, son. |
 | Feb 14, 2009 11:13 pm -
3*** did this yesturday lol |
| Feb 15, 2009 12:08 am -
OP i have an idea.
isnt hygrygen the lightest gas? (due to only haveing a cupple of nutrons and protons)
so if i tie some fise to this, or even lite the fuse and let the balloon go, ,,i will get a fire ball in the sky right ?
you should make that for you next egg, id love to see it. |
| Feb 15, 2009 12:09 am -
^
rushed that post coz i have to ruun off to dinner |
| Feb 15, 2009 4:02 am -
Yes Baddspella, if there is enough of hydrogen to life the balloon, then it would make a hinderberg bomb, it would float up, and make a flying fireball. |
| Feb 15, 2009 11:08 am -
There are Youtube videos of just that. Use a few feet of fuse taped to the side of the balloon, light and release. It goes up a ways, the fuse burns up, and *BOOM*.
I’ll find a video. BRB
*searches Youtube*
http://www.yout be.com/watch?v=at46fqq1Y_0 |
 | Feb 15, 2009 4:13 pm -
Quote: OP i have an idea.
isnt hygrygen the lightest gas? (due to only haveing a cupple of nutrons and protons)
so if i tie some fise to this, or even lite the fuse and let the balloon go, ,,i will get a fire ball in the sky right ?
you should make that for you next egg, id love to see it.
My friend heard a bunch of loud explosions going off outside his house and went outside and saw like 10 cops in his neighbors yard arresting the guy for lighting combustible balloons on fire and it was setting off a loud boom. You can do it if you want but apparently fiery balloons = bomb in a cop’s eyes haha. The guy was drunk by the way so that made it kind of funny. |
 | Feb 15, 2009 10:21 pm -
I am going to refrain from rating, but when I mixed water and sodium hydroxide in a plastic bottle, it melted the bottle to about a tenth of its size and then melted a hole in the bottom of it. It did give off a gas however. |
 | Feb 16, 2009 12:31 am -
Actually hydrogen WILL make your voice squeaky.
Any gas less dense than nitrogen will. |
 | Feb 16, 2009 6:17 am -
5’d
Pics are always nice though. |
 | Feb 16, 2009 7:37 am -
"How to make a balloon float" - Put it in a bowl of water. HeHeHe |
 | Feb 16, 2009 11:34 am -
make it through electrolisys its better that way |
 | Feb 16, 2009 3:25 pm -
5*s again |
 | Mar 02, 2009 1:33 am -
hydrogen blows up loud, I knew a guy who had purchased several yards of slow burn fuse and would attach about a foot of it to the balloon. Not really deadly, but not really pleasant for your ears to endure I suppose if we were closer it would have hurt quite a bit more.
5* |
 | Mar 31, 2009 9:32 am -
pics would be nice.
but it is so simple and well explained that they arent mandatory.
5* |
 | Jul 30, 2009 3:51 am -
5*’s as always tommyboy |
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