How to Make a Hydrogen Balloon
"My Hydrogen Experiments Part 3"
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If you haven't read about my first two hydrogen experiments on how to make first a simple and then a more basic better electrolyzer design then please Click Here and read them first. Using my electrolyzers I am able to launch some pretty big balloons. I like to dip some yarn in kerosene and tie a hydrogen balloon to it. Then I light it and launch the hydrogen balloon. It will float up 30 feet or so depending on the length of the string, (fuse) and blow up. It's a awesome site to see at night. |
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Here is a photo of my first hydrogen filled balloon, this balloon was filled with the oxygen "premixed" which is why the explosion goes so fast. I thought it was really cool that it floated even though it was filled 1/3 with the heavy element oxygen. Pure hydrogen actually has twice the lifting power as lab grade helium (pure), normal helium like you would find at a party store is actually diluted down with air, but I didn't notice any real difference. Afterward so as not to see my creation gone to waist (hydrogen being the smallest atom leaks out of a balloon in a mater of hours, rather than days like with helium) I decided to blow it up here's a little clip.
Here is a bigger explosion, for this one I used a punching balloon, I filled up all the way and launched it, it rose high and got stuck in a tree where it exploded here is some footage, it's hard to see because it's so dark, but when the explosion shows in the end it is huge. It took several minutes to accrue because I think I made my fuse to long, so it' a large file please be patient.
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