When you pop a balloon filled with air it bursts but when you pop a balloon filled with water it does not burst, Why?
2006-12-14 10:23:10 · 7 answers · asked by crispelover 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Pressure, pressure, pressure.
Blow up a baloon (with air) to only 1/4 of it's capacity. Stick a pin in it. It won't burst.
2006-12-14 10:27:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You haven't filled a balloon with water, have you? I dont mean putting some water in a balloon, I mean really filling a balloon with water so that it stretches the skin of the balloon to the same degree as blowing it up with air.
Besides, the air in a balloon is at a higher pressure than the air outside the balloon. so, when you remove the barrier between the two (pop the balloon) the two pressures equalise at a rapid rate.
When the balloon is filled with water, the balloon is merely acting as a container - the water is not under pressure.
2006-12-14 10:31:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, it will still "burst"... but a possible answer to your question could be the "thickness" of the water compared to the air: the balloon will be able to go back to its normal not-inflated size faster when it is filled with air and popped than when it is filled with water and popped.
2006-12-14 10:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by K3nn37h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because air puts pressure on all sides of the balloon but water only acts against the area where the water is so you do not have pressure like you do with air.
2006-12-14 10:33:21 · answer #4 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see it is a very simple comcept if a ballon is filled with air and when it is pricked with a pin it bursts with a lage amount of sound coz all the air filled in the ballon tries to escape from a tiny hole and eventually when all the air in the ballon tries to get out at the same time more pressure develops between the air molecules and the pressure so developed makes the ballon to burst.......
and when water is filled inside ; as we know that the water molecules are larger in size than the air molecules so are not able to develop the pressure equivalent to the pressure of the air and hense do not burst......
2006-12-14 10:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by Amirali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can compress air, but you can't compress liquids. The air balloon pops because of a pressure change (the inside of the balloon has more pressure than the outside do to the air being compressed). Since liquids can't be compressed, there is no pressure change and therefore no pop.
2006-12-14 10:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess would be that air heats up at rates much faster than other elements which would allow the air to expand causing the balloon to pop...rather than the balloon to melt because it has a more dense element...hope that was kinda helpful...
2016-05-24 05:51:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋