For two days now ive been thinking on and off about how much air it would take to fill a balloon in a perfect vacuum :)

@freemo It depends on the definition on filling a balloon
With one molecule it could be considered full
Now I am thinking about how to figure out how much air can I get inside a balloon in a perfect vacuum before it pops

@Gabiiel Basically I mean to fill it up in the sense of being the size your normally blow a balloon to be on earth. Basically large enough to be big but not so large it pops.

@freemo PV=nRT I guess
Volume, let's say a sphere with about 0.04 in diameter
n is our variable
T, let's say 25°C or 298K
P= the force a latex balloon make at such size

@Gabiiel The math wouldnt be hard to do, i just dont know the force the balloon would exert to do the math.

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@Gabiiel What I find interesting here are a few thing, but most notably its the nature of the curve (not monotomically increasing as one might expect).. If my reasoning is correct there is a point where if the balloon gets to a certain size it will continue to expand with no additional air as the pressure decreases. So there should be a point right around the peak where adding even a tiny bit of air would cause an instantnious leap in size.

Similar there are cases where two different sizes exhibit the same pressure, whic is also counter intuitive.

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