sâmbătă, 4 august 2018

Essential Facts About Santa Fe Balloons

By Ann Sanders


Balloons have become an integral part of almost every celebration. Therefore, without balloons, some people view celebrations to be incomplete. Observing children scream joyfully when holding a balloon or at the sight of a balloon is a common occurrence. Even the elderly are tempted to bob balloons when they see them. Interestingly, the first balloon to be invented was not meant for fun. This is worth knowing about Santa Fe Balloons.

Back in the time of their invention, the inventor Michael Faraday was not inspired by fun to make them. Instead it was out of serious work and experiments with gases that these elastic bags came into existence in 1824. They were filled with various gases and studied thoroughly. To make a balloon, two rubber sheets were pressed together and a circular shape cut at the edges. Flour was then rubbed into the opposing surfaces to make sure they did not stick together.

Initially, pig bladders and animal intestines were used as toy balloons before the rubber balloon were invented. As time went by, the balloon continues to evolve. Currently, they are being produced in factories and can be used for a wide range of applications. Some of the modern uses include advertising, entertainment and decoration.

Artists have used them for a long period of time to display art. The balloons that artists use are usually made of rubber that allows them to stretch extensively. For advertisement purposes, service providers and companies use printed or huge blimps to broadcast their services, events or products.

These products can be inflated with water, air or different gases such as helium, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrous oxide. A balloon can be manufactured using diverse materials today. These materials are latex, nylon fabric, rubber, polychroloprene and others. Moreover, they come in many colors for people to select from. The design is changed to strengthen them if they are meant to serve meteorology, medical treatment, military defense or transportation functions.

The low cost and low density of balloon are the properties behind its raising wide range of applications. These bags are able to float when filled with helium gas because it is lighter than air. Rubber trees provide the raw material for manufacturing latex balloon. Latex is harvested from the bark of rubber tree. Most importantly, latex is biodegradable.

Use of latex to make these products makes manufacturers environmentally conscious. This is because harvesting latex does not require cutting the tree down, something that promotes afforestation. A single tree can provide latex for over forty years. Releasing the inflated bag into the air causes it to rupture when it attains a certain altitude before falling back on the ground.

In conclusion, it is a worry that bags released into the air still affect the environment because they eventually return back as small soft silver rubbers. On the other hand, if the rubber is biodegradable then the product cannot affect the environment. When buying a balloon, it is important to remember that it can cause suffocation if mishandled.




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