A 2-for-1 experiment; Day 1 is an Acid-Base Reaction, Day 2-3 is the Osmosis Portion. Though it covers 3 days, the entire time spent on the project is 15-45 minutes.
DAY 1:
Dissolving the shell
1) Place 4 eggs in a container, cover with white vinegar.
2) Add some “fresh” vinegar (or just replace with fresh vinegar)after about 8-12 hours.
Vinegar is an ACID; eggshells are made of calcium carbonate (BASE).
Reacting Acids and Bases
3) These are the eggs after about 2 hours. Look at all those CO2 bubbles!
4) You should have “naked eggs” (just the membranes) within 24-48 hours after starting
(For more on the chemistry: http://goo.gl/zOhCk)
DAY 2:
Naked Eggs
1) Remove and gently rinse your naked egg under running water. Compare it to a fresh egg. It looks (and feels) MUCH different now that the shell is gone!
2) Hold the egg up to light and look at the yolk. Boo said the egg feels like a water balloon.
3) Once the shell is off, the egg will get MUCH larger! This is due to osmosis – there is more water in the vinegar than in the egg. The water will diffuse from the area of high concentration (vinegar), into the area of low concentration (egg), across the membrane. Diffusion occurs until equilibrium occurs, (after that, exchange takes place at a steady rate).
(For an easy-to-follow definition and animation of diffusion and osmosis: http://goo.gl/IRxXi)
Osmosis with Eggs
1. Label cups clearly for water, vinegar, and corn syrup.
2. Put one naked egg in each cup.
3. Cover each egg with the appropriate liquid.
Demonstrating Osmosis
Thing 2 Â helps Thing 1 demonstrate diffusion across a selectively permeable barrier. With Matchbox cars and a baby gate.*
After the demonstration, Thing 1 came up with his hypothoses:
1) The egg in corn syrup will shrink, because Corn syrup doesn’t have water in it. The water will diffuse from the egg into the syrup.
2) The egg in the vinegar will stay the same size, because it’s already been soaking in the vinegar long enough that it is in equilibrium (same concentration of water in AND out of the egg)
3) The egg in the water will get even bigger, since there is a higher concentration of water in the water (!) than in the egg.
*Large stuffed animals were also involved, but since this is a SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE barrier, they were unable to cross and stayed in a corner by themselves.
Edited: For that matter, the children are also unable to cross this particular selectively permeable barrier. Who says parenting isn’t a science.
DAY 3:
Osmosis Eggs
Having soaked overnight, the eggs are dramatically different in size and feel.
1) The naked egg soaked in corn syrup is the smallest
2) The naked eggs soaked in vinegar and water aren’t significantly different from each other, visibly. However, you can tell a distinct difference by touch (the naked egg soaked in water is much more taut).
This observation seems to confirm Andrew’s hypotheses from yesterday, but the fun isn’t over yet!
Observation
3. How are the eggs different? How are they similar? What do you think caused the differences?
The egg soaked in corn syrup looks much different than the fresh egg, too.
Breaking the Water Egg
Scientists always make the best of any “woops”. This is true.
This surprised us! The absorbed water hadn’t been incorporated into the egg white or yolk. You can see the white and yolk intact in the middle of the huge splash of water. All of that water (plus the water on the boys’ shirts, plus the water on the floor) was inside the naked egg.
Breaking the Vinegar Egg
Squeezing till the egg broke was a bit grosser than he expected it to be (sometimes science is messy).
Breaking the Corn Syrup Egg
Because I’m the mean mommy, I didn’t let him squeeze this egg ’till it popped.
He *really* wanted to.
More Observation
1) Look at the membrane (the consensus is that it feels like a flower petal).
2) Compare the volume of the broken Corn Syrup Egg to the volume of the broken Vinegar Egg. It’s pretty impressive; I wish we would have thought to measure the volume.
Who gets a Brownie Point? Did you notice we started with 4 Naked Eggs and finished with 3? That was my fault, not the kids!
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Thanks for this great information. We really enjoyed doing this experiment! I do think you should have let him open up the membrane on the corn syrup egg. We found it fascinating! The yolk is dehydrated from so much water exiting the egg and heading to the greener pastures of the corn syrup, and you can see that it is smaller, darker, and thicker. The consistency is very different! http://switzerite.blogspot.com/2018/06/human-body-camp-day-6.html
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Very nice experiment but my egg poped in the acetic acid
Very nice experiment but my egg poped in the acetic acid
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Thanks for info this will really help me in my experiment
Thank you this has been very helpful what a fun mom you must be
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Good job
that was AWESOME!!!!
Oh yeah and Sunny you should be nicer to her. She spent her time doing this for us. You should be happy. She didnt have to do this.
Wow. Surprisingly i did this in school. It was so fun. I understand i wanted to squeeze my egg til i tpopped too. But my teacher said no. Hey can you post one on how it affected the eggs. Thanks for posting this it was amazing
Thank you, this helped a lot with my lab report for school!
Stop saying that just because you can’t get it right
Thanks alot, it has really helped me
This actually helped though you could have been a little more clear. Very helpful though
Your awesome, you helped me understand the demonstration and the process of osmosis . With me being a college student and taking Anatomy and Physiology helps a lot.
Yea they should do an experiment on growing and shrinking eggs
this is a good way of learning biology and osmosis
good expiriment
Excellent pieces. Keep posting such kind of information on your blog. Im really impressed by it.
it is actually called diffusion when you use anything else but water. It is called osmosis when you use water.
thanks for info this will help me for science fair project!!!
love it . many do this project in high school!but people don’t realize it can be made more simplistic than u thinks
Yass billy! slayy those eggs
Thanks!
We are doing something similar to this in our science class, but it is a 7-day time span. We have to write about the observations and what caused these steps to happen. Any help?
well me and my classes are doing the same thing and I just wanted to know what will happen in 3 day to the egg in the cup full of vinegar because I just want to know what will happen so yea :0
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hy gents tell me what is the aim of this project
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Thank you so much for this! I will be trying this tonight! Hopefully it comes out right
This is so great! Thank you for writing it all up.
Very detailed with diffusion and helped me study for my final exam.
GREAT INFO…
We finish the experiment and it was great to see what an egg and vinegar can do, i was so amazed
Thank you for the very detailed experiment I will be doing this for a project and hopefully it’ll come out right. 🙂
this is a great project.im in the 10th grade and im gonna do this…thanks!
We are doing this experiment today! 🙂
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