Flying Flame | Gujarati | Fun with Heat
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2015-03-19

You can make this hot air balloon but do this under the supervision of an adult. You will need a ceramic plate, a matchbox and a tea bag. Remove the tea bag from its sachet. The tea bag will have a small string and a tag. Remove the staple pin and discard the string and tag. The tea bag itself is made out of a very thin and absorbent paper. Open the tea bag and empty out its contents in a plate. Now with your thumb and fingers make a cylinder from the tea bag. It will be an open tube. Stand it on the ceramic plate. Then light the top of the cylinder with a matchbox. Seek adult help for burning. Soon the cylinder will burn and in the end it will become so light that because of the convection currents it will take off in the air like a hot air balloon. See this action again. This work was supported by IUCAA and Tata Trust. This film was made by Ashok Rupner TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org