Blow Up Balloons With Pop Rock Candy And Soda

Introduction

Remember that sweet little thing called childhood when every little thing used to fascinate us? From the rains to the clouds and the rainbow. It is the phase when we learn things and examines them and when we come to know about them, it makes us happy. How you wish that you could feel that childlike bliss once again. How you wish that for once you can again experience the rain for the first time or the storm or seeing the rainbow. The balloons always fascinated us too while we used to wonder that how can these lighter than air things float while you wanted to float too, so badly.

This science experiment is more of chemistry.

We all were fond of candies in our childhood but one particular candy which used to brought Diwali in our mouth was the Pop rock candy. These little granules used to make our mouth a living war house with guns and glory all around. But do you know the scientific version of these candies that how you can use these very things to pop up a balloon with a little help of science?

Apparatus

1. One bag of pop rock. You can always have them in spare because who knows when your craving for them begins.
   
2. A funnel
   
3. Big party balloons
   
4. A bottle of Soda
   

Procedure

Fill your balloon with a lot of pop rocks with the help of a tool such as a funnel to keep it precise.

---

Do not and I repeat, do not let the pop-rock get in contact with the soda until you want to make your balloon pop.

---

Next, you have to open your soda bottle.

---

Gently put the balloon filled with the pop-rock on the top of it.

---

Now shake it off and see the magic of science, in front of your eyes.

---

You will see the balloon being inflated without you even touching it.

---

Ahh and now you wish that if life was also like this, the work could get easily done without many efforts.

---

Result

Sometimes, science has all the answers. So how this little wonder works. As we all know that these candies are pressurized with carbon dioxide which creates small pockets inside the candy itself. Now when the candy touches moisture or saliva, like the one in your mouth, the candy dissolves releasing the carbon-di-oxide in your mouth and hence causing the popping sensation in the Soda Science Experiment.

Now the same phenomenon works in a soda. It also has pressurized carbon-dioxide. When it is at high pressure, it has the ability to hold more carbon dioxide and hence it comes out as bubbles instead.

Conclusion

So, we learned that how science experiment is everywhere while making our work easy every day. How can a small thing such as candy pop be used to do such a big task without many efforts? That's what magic of science precisely. The world of science is a fascinating one and these fun experiments allow you to explore it in a fun way so that one can learn along with knowing the mechanism behind.

So now when you know how to do this, grab a packet of pop candy from the market and see for yourself, the magic of science, the magic of life with the fab Soda Science Experiment.