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A balloon is a flexible bag fille with a type of gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide or air. Early balloons were made of dried animal bladders. Modern balloons can be made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene or a nylon fabric. Some balloons are purely decorative, while others are used for specific purposes such as meteorology, medical treatment, military defense, or transportation. A balloon's properties, including its low density and relatively low cost, have led to a wide range of applications.

Trivia about balloon

  • Animals first went aloft in 1783, when the Montgolfier Bros. sent a sheep, a duck & a rooster up in one of these
  • In 1804 Joseph Gay-Lussac went up, up & away in one of these to research the atmosphere
  • Term for the circle that encloses a comic strip character's dialogue
  • (David Faber gives the clue from the set of The Faber Report.) The large, deferred payment due at the end of a type of low-interest mortgage loan is known as this "inflatable" term
  • Up, up & away with Jules Verne's classic adventure "Five Weeks in" one of these
  • The Montgolfier brothers were papermakers by profession & used paper in their early ones of these
  • In October 1870 French minister Leon Gambetta made a daring escape from besieged Paris in one of these
  • A Montgolfier is a Louis XVI chair with a back often shaped like one of these
  • To confirm the existence of cosmic rays, in 1912 Victor Hess went up 16,000 feet in one of these
  • In 1957 an Air Force doctor stayed a record 32 hours in the stratosphere in one of these
  • In 1783 Pilatre de Rozier became the first to fly in one of these
  • One can be observation or hot-air
  • "How" this "Was Launched" is the title of chapter XVII

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