EXPERIMENT

1. Place the egg in a graduated cylinder or tall glass and cover the egg with vinegar.
2. Look closely at the egg. Do you see any bubbles forming on the shell? Leave the egg in the vinegar for a
full 24 hours.
3. Change the vinegar on the second day. Carefully pour the old vinegar down the drain and cover the egg
with fresh vinegar. Place the glass with the vinegar and egg in a safe place for a week - that's right, 7
days! Don't disturb the egg but pay close attention to the bubbles forming on the surface of the shell (or
what's left of it).
4. One week later, pour off the vinegar and carefully rinse the egg with water. The egg looks translucent
because the outside shell is gone! The only thing that remains is the delicate membrane of the egg.
You've successfully made an egg without a shell. Okay, you didn't really make the egg - the chicken
made the egg - you just stripped away the chemical that gives the egg its strength.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Let's start with the bubbles you saw forming on the shell. The bubbles are carbon dioxide gas. Vinegar is
an acid called acetic acid - CH3COOH - and white vinegar from the grocery store is usually about 5%
acetic acid and 95% water. Egg shells are made up of calcium carbonate. The vinegar reacts with the
calcium carbonate by breaking the chemical into its calcium and carbonate parts (in simplest terms). The
calcium part floats around in the solution while the carbonate part reacts to form the carbon dioxide
bubbles that you see.
Some of the vinegar will also sneak through, or permeate, the egg's membrane and cause the egg to get
a little bigger. This flow of a liquid from one solution through a semi-permeable membrane and into
another less concentrated solution is called osmosis. That's why the egg is even more delicate if you
handle it. If you shake the egg, you can see the yolk sloshing around in the egg white. If the membrane
breaks, the egg's insides will spill out into the vinegar. Yes, you've made a pickled egg! Allowing the egg
to react with the carbon dioxide in the air will cause the egg to harden again. Amazing!
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Whats
Going
On?
When you submerge an egg in vinegar, the shell dissolves. Vinegar contains acetic acid, which breaks apart the solid
calcium carbonate crystals that make up the eggshell into their calcium and carbonate parts. The calcium ions float
free (calcium ions are atoms that are missing electrons), while the carbonate goes to make carbon dioxidethe
bubbles that you see.

What Else .
Can I Try?
The reaction of the eggshell and the vinegar is an acid-base reaction. Calcium carbonate, a base, reacts with the acid
in the vinegar to make carbon dioxide. Baking soda is also a base.
Try mixing baking soda and vinegar and see what happens! Use this mixture to explode a plastic bag.
Once youve made a few shell-less eggs, you can experiment by putting them in different solutions.Heres how.
Keep your eggs in the refrigerator until you're ready to do the experiments.

EXPERIMENT PROCEDURE
1. Pour enough milk in the dinner plate to completely cover the bottom to the depth of about 1/4 inch.
Allow the milk to settle.
2. Add one drop of each of the four colors of food coloring - red, yellow, blue, and green - to the milk. Keep
the drops close together in the center of the plate of milk.
3. Find a clean cotton swab for the next part of the experiment. Predict what will happen when you touch
the tip of the cotton swab to the center of the milk. It's important not to stir the mix. Just touch it with
the tip of the cotton swab. Go ahead and try it. Did anything happen?
4. Now place a drop of liquid dish soap on the other end of the cotton swab. Place the soapy end of the
cotton swab back in the middle of the milk and hold it there for 10 to 15 seconds. Look at that burst of
color! It's like the 4th of July in a bowl of milk!
5. Add another drop of soap to the tip of the cotton swab and try it again. Experiment with placing the
cotton swab at different places in the milk. Notice that the colors in the milk continue to move even
when the cotton swab is removed. What makes the food coloring in the milk move?
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Milk is mostly water but it also contains vitamins, minerals, proteins, and tiny droplets of fat suspended
in solution. Fats and proteins are sensitive to changes in the surrounding solution (the milk).
The secret of the bursting colors is the chemistry of that tiny drop of soap. Dish soap, because of its
bipolar characteristics (nonpolar on one end and polar on the other), weakens the chemical bonds that
hold the proteins and fats in solution. The soap's polar, or hydrophilic (water-loving), end dissolves in
water, and its hydrophobic (water-fearing) end attaches to a fat globule in the milk. This is when the fun
begins.
The molecules of fat bend, roll, twist, and contort in all directions as the soap molecules race around to
join up with the fat molecules. During all of this fat molecule gymnastics, the food coloring molecules
are bumped and shoved everywhere, providing an easy way to observe all the invisible activity. As the
soap becomes evenly mixed with the milk, the action slows down and eventually stops.
Try adding another drop of soap to see if there's any more movement. If so, you discovered there are
still more fat molecules that haven't found a partner at the big color dance. Add another drop of soap to
start the process again.
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