Flying Tea Bag

The flying tea bag experiment is a heat experiment masked as a super cool trick. As the tea bag burns it heats the air inside the hollow center of the bag. As the air gets hotter the molecules become less dense and move up because warm air is less dense than cold air.

The less dense warmer air rises above the more dense cooler air around the tea bag. Since the tea bag is so light it rises with it and appears to fly.

Lets get started to prove, that warm air is less dense than cold air.

• Tea Bag
• Match Stick/Lighter

1. Cut the tea bag from above to make it stable.
   Preferably you should do the experiment in an open but without too much air to un-balance the tea bag and making it fall.
2. Place it on a flat surface, CAUTION: Your Tea Bag must be standing in order to perform the experiment.
3. Lighten your Tea Bag slightly, move backwards and wait for the reaction.
   WARNING: Do not blow the fire! It will ruin the experiment.
4. And BOOM!! Your Tea Bag is flying.🧐

SO WHAT'S MAKING THE TEA BAG FLY?

Heat makes the air inside the tea bag less dense than the air outside of it. This creates a convection current that lifts the ash from your burning tea bag and sends it flying upward.

FUN FACT: The same happens with HOT AIR BALOONS!