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A balloon is a flexible bag normally filled with a gas, which may be used as a toy, or as an aircraft, or for other purposes. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... For other uses, see Balloon (disambiguation). ... A toy balloon is a hollow body abundance cash with gas that is produced mostly out of rubber, plastic or non-polluting nature rubber. ... A hot air balloon is prepared for flight by inflation of the envelope with propane burners A hot air balloon takes off The balloon has just landed and is being pulled nearer to a road for deflation A balloon is a type of aircraft that remains aloft due to its...

The following articles address alternative uses of the term.

• Ballooning (spider), the practice of some species of spider of using tufts of webbing in order to be carried by wind currents
• Speech balloon
• List of balloon uses, a list of uses of the term balloon
• A fairy piece used in Four-dimensional chess.
• Balloon framing, a construction technique.

Ballooning is a term to describe the way many spider species disperse through the air. ... The three most common speech ballons (top to bottom: speech, thought, scream). ... This is a list of uses of balloons toy balloons tiny balloon catheter small (volume of a few litres) toy balloon Papier-mâché balloon animal decoration solar balloon balloon mail as part of a balloon flight competition or to spread information Balloon helicopter Demonstration of rocket propulsion by letting... A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. ... Framing is a term used to describe the process of erecting a framed structure, usually out of wood or occasionally steel. ...

See also

• Ballon
• Balun, an impedance converter

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