السبت، 4 أغسطس 2018

Essential Facts About Santa Fe Balloons

By Ann Sanders


Some people consider celebrations to be incomplete without balloons because they have become an integral part of almost every festivity. It is quite normal to see kids squeal with joy at the sight of a balloon or when holding one. As for the elderly, some cannot resist the temptation of bobbing a balloon when they see one. However, it is interesting to know that fun had nothing to do with the first balloons. This is what Santa Fe Balloons are all about.

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.

Something else was in use before the invention of the balloon. In that period, animal intestines including pig bladders were used as toy balloons before the big invention. The balloon has evolved over time to become what it is today. Currently, production is done in factories, with people purchasing them for different purposes, including entertainment, decoration, and advertising.

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.

Companies that manufacture balloons from latex are environment conscious. First, they harvest latex without falling trees thus encouraging afforestation. By doing this they allow trees to continue producing this raw material for up to 40 years while still intact. People who are in the habit of releasing balloons into the air must know that they freeze and break at a certain elevation and return to earth.

To finalize, it is comforting to know that as much as people release balloons into the atmosphere, they return as small soft slivers of rubber. However, whether they affect the environment depends on the biodegradability of the material used to make them. People must also understand that the risk of suffocation posed by these products is real.




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