If you blow up a balloon, and then release it, the balloon will fly away as the air rushes out. This is an illustration of

A) Newton's Second Law.
B) Galileo's Law of Inertia.
C) Newton's Third Law.
D) Newton's First Law.
E) Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.


C

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