My answer was “because of the air…”
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TLDR: The air inside the balloon rushes out so fast that it makes the popping sound.
Sound is nothing more than the vibration of the air.
When you pop a balloon, the elastic latex of the balloon shrinks back to it’s original size in a few milliseconds.
All the compressed air inside the balloon then creates a pressure wave that expands outwards. We hear that pressure wave as a *POP*
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