Bouncing Egg Experiment

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my “bouncing egg” experiment, I have to put a hardboiled or non-hardboiled egg in vinegar for 1-2 days. While the egg is in the vinegar, the vinegar eats away the shell and toughens the membrane so that it can “bounce”. The acetic acid in the vinegar breaks apart the solid calcium carbonate that’s in the shell of the egg. The calcium ions float free (calcium ions are atoms that are missing electrons), while the carbonate goes to make carbon dioxide—the bubbles that you see. (http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/eggs/activity-naked.html )
If you go the hardboiled route with the eggs there’s not much change. When you hard boil an egg the protein in the egg (the protein is high in eggs) makes it hard. “When you heat the egg the proteins gain energy and literally shake apart the bonds between the parts of the amino-acid strings, causing the proteins to unfold” (http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/menus/question616.htm). So basically it’s just a long process of breaks and glues between amino-acids and protein. In the end look at what you get! Science is amazing! When the heat goes up it gives the protein the right amount of energy to create more and better bonds between the protein and amino-acids. There’s six grams of protein in every raw and hardboiled egg.
These are the principles of the scientific method for the hardboiled egg. To make my egg bounce, I must use vinegar, which is made of 5 percent acetic acid and 95 percent water. The vinegar is an acid used to dissolve the shell of the egg. The principle may involve the length of time it will take to dissolve the shell.
My purpose of my experiment is to show that when the shell of the hardboiled egg is dissolved in vinegar, it will bounce. It will be interesting to see if there is...

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...ach egg. We put the eggs in each jar (one per jar) and filled them up till they were covered in vinegar (they will float but push the eggs down gently to see if you have enough vinegar. Add a little more if you don’t have enough). Immediately the eggs had tiny little bubbles everywhere around them. The chemicals and science got to work right away at dissolving the egg shell around each egg. It was amazing! I just want to add that at times the eggs would like to “dance”. By that I mean that the eggs would like to randomly start spinning and I have no clue why. I’ve tried researching this but nothing ever came up I thought it was very fascinating and humorous to watch though. We started this experiment April 1st 2014 at 11:36 am and we ended the April 4th 2014 experiment on at 2:58 pm. It did not bounce as high as we had hoped but the experiment still did a great job.

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