You are about to take a short trip. However, you will not be traveling by car or bus; instead you will be traveling up in a hot air balloon. You know that hot air balloons, like the ones pictured, are able to rise when the air contained in them is heated. Why does the balloon rise? What is happening at the molecular level to make the balloon rise?

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Hot air rises. Heated air molecules “spread out” or expand and bounce around, and the space becomes less dense than the surrounding space. Increasing the air temperature inside the balloon envelope makes it less dense than the air, thus making it “lighter than air”.

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