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Kelly explained that for Alexandra's birthday, she bought a 34-inch foil balloon, along with about 10 latex balloons. "As a parent I was always aware of the choking hazard of latex balloons, but ...
A tragic accident that happened Wednesday night is raising red flags about the significant yet often forgotten danger balloons pose to small children. 8-year-old girl suffocated to death by Mylar ...
Feb. 12—Love is in the air this week, but power providers are asking New Mexicans to keep it away from their lines. Mylar balloons, those shiny tokens of affection often sent to sweethearts on ...
[4] Animal-shaped balloons. Beginning in the late 1970s, some more expensive (and longer-lasting) foil balloons made of thin, unstretchable, less permeable metallised films such as Mylar started being produced. These balloons have attractive shiny reflective surfaces and are often printed with color pictures and patterns for gifts and parties.
The coating also reduces the permeability of the film to light, water and oxygen. The properties of the film remain, such as higher toughness, the ability to be heat sealed, and a lower density at a lower cost than an aluminium foil. This gives metallised films some advantages over aluminium foil and aluminium foil laminates.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is imploring Americans not to let go of balloons outside. According to the agency, their impact on wild animals is quite negative — and often fatal. Many ...
The balloon law prohibits the sale or distribution of a balloon that is constructed of electrically conductive material (metallized Mylar or foil) and filled with a gas lighter than air (helium), without affixing an object of sufficient weight to the balloon to counter the lift capability, affixing a specified warning statement on the balloon ...