Why does baking soda and vinegar make things fly?

Answer 1

When the vinegar is mixed with the baking soda it causes a chemical reaction to occur. The baking soda breaks down to make carbon dioxide gas. The gas bubbles take up more room than the other chemicals, so they push out of the container and make it move.

Answer 2

Because Viniger holds Carbon in a liquid form and as Carbon dioxide (CO2). When Baking soda mixes with the vinegar, a chemical reaction occurs transfering the CO2 into gas and heat.
When capped into something, the preassure builds up and "POP" goes the weasel

Answer 3

Ok! Here's whatcha do! - 2 Tbsp. baking soda in one cup - 4 Tbsp. vinegar in another cup I tested this in advance to see that when mixed the bubbles filled the cup, but didn't overflow. In front of each child, I put the cup with the vinegar on top of a paper towel. Then I asked them to make observations about what was in the cup. Q: What does it look like? What does it sound like? What does it *smell* like? A: It looks and sounds like water. It smells yucky, like oil (sometimes it is mixed with oil and put on salads), like stinky socks (maybe your socks!)... I told them that it was vinegar. Most had never heard the word. I really wanted to tell them what vingar was, but I didn't know, so I settled for reading the ingredients. I talked about some uses of vinegar and we had a great discussion of pickles and what people did before they had refridgerators. Then we passed out the cups of baking soda, and told them to wait until everyone had one, and on the count of three they could pour all the baking soda into the vinegar. Wow! We got them to talk about what happened. Some cups overflowed. There were bubbles. What's in a bubble? We talked about the difference between solid, liquid and gas. (I wish I had known better definitions of these, but we muddled through it.) Next we did another experiment that I told them I had never tried before. I put vinegar in the bottle and baking soda in the balloon, then fastened the balloon over the mouth of the bottle and mixed the two. The balloon inflated about half way and the kids were wildly impressed. Everyone wanted to feel the balloon. We repeated the experiment with more baking soda and more vinegar and saw the ballon inflate even more. We had just enough time (and baking soda and vinegar) to let everyone mix them again themselves. We didn't measure so precisely this time, so there were more overflows, but that just added to the fun.

Answer 4

When baking soda and vinegar react together carbon dioxide is produced as one of the products.
When carbon dioxide's pressure increases to a certain extent, it causes the things to fly.

Answer 5

it doesn't, magic makes things fly