Fizz inflator

 Kia ora,

Have you ever made a fizz inflator?

This is a fun experiment for you to do at home. 

How does it work?

The baking soda and vinegar create an acid-base reaction wich makes a gas called carbon dioxide. beceuse gases need a lot of room to expand the bottle fill fills up and goes into the balloon making it blow up.

if you dont know what that is watch this video

Here are the instructions to try this experiment at home

First you need to collect your ingredients and supplies:

• One empty bottle
• ½ A cup of vinegar
• A balloon
• Baking soda
• A funnel or a piece of paper

1. Pour the vinegar into the bottle

2. This is the tricky part: Loosen up the balloon by stretching it a few times and then use the funnel to fill it a bit more than half way with baking soda. If you don’t have a funnel you can make one using the paper and some tape.

3. Now carefully put the neck of the balloon all the way over the neck of the bottle without letting any baking soda into the bottle

4. Now carefully put the neck of the balloon all the way over the neck of the bottle without letting any baking soda into the bottle

During the experiement I noticed that the more vinegar you add the bigger your balloon grows.

I found it challenging to pour the baking powder into the balloon because the baking soda was quite chunky and keept getting stuck in the funnel. My favorite bit was watching the balloon blow up.

Ma te wa 

Irelyn