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If you make balloon animals with Helium instead of air, will the animals float?

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1. Yes. Helium is lighter than air.
2. REAL ANIMALS? Probably not, the volume of helium required to lift an animal is more than can be held inside the animal at 1 ATM.
3. I'd say yeah. If normal round balloons can float because there is helium inside, why not animals?
4. yeah
5. DUH
6. Yes it will. In fact my favorite things to get at the circus when I was little was the floating poodle on a string.
7. The balloon floats or not is based on the overall density. Helium has lower density than air. The total mass (helium + balloon) divided by the volume is lower than air, it floats. (mass of air + mass of balloon) / volume is higher than air itself, it doesn't float well.
8. Float as in on water?? no!!!! it just flies away high above!!!! if you want it to float in air, then yeah its gonna float in air but u gotta attach it 2 a string else it will fly away. fill a baloon with only air and yeah it will float on water and NOT fly away.