How to inflate a balloon with vinegar and baking soda?

Balloons will help to organize a holiday and make it more intense. A simple chemical experiment will help you inflate the balloons without any physical effort. Kids will love this fun like inflating balloons with soda and vinegar.

Simple chemical research will help you inflate the balloons without making any physical effort. Doctors say that inflating balloons is helpful. It develops lungs, eliminates any congestion in the bronchi, and therefore improves the health of those who smokes or is predisposed to diseases of the respiratory tract.

Another useful side of baloons inflating is for those who wants to lose weight because this simple procedure accelerates metabolism. If you have a stressful condition or depression – breathe deeply and  puff out your cheeks and balloons!

For the manufacturing you need:

a balloon
baking soda
vinegar
plastic bottle
a funnel

With the help of ordinary vinegar and a few spoonfuls of baking soda a real gas can be easily obtained – carbon dioxide. Moreover, we will not just extract this gas, but also inflate the balloon. You have never inflated a balloon with the help of the bottle? Then do it!

Fabrication process:

1. Prepare the vinegar and baking soda.

2. First, pour the vinegar into the bottle about half a glass.

3. Then pour baking soda into a balloon through a funnel.

4. Take a balloon and inflate-deflate it (not much!) several times to make it stretched. Place the ball on the neck of the bottle. This should be done very carefully, without turning the ball to hit the soda into the bottle before time.
Make sure that the rubber fits snugly the neck.

5. Gently and firmly holding the balloon on the bottle, turn it. Baking soda falls into the vinegar, and begins a rapid chemical reaction resembling the volcanic eruption. This produces carbon dioxide, creating pressure that inflates the balloon. See how the liquid is foaming? A balloon is inflated more and more.

6. But there is one “but” – carbon dioxide is heavier than the air, and your balloon will not fly and fall on the floor (only helium balloons have the ability to fly). But sometimes it takes a lot of balls for decoration of the room, and not the flights in the air.