Bouncing egg experiment

The Jumping Egg Experiment

In this experiment you will see how the egg becomes like a rubber ball,it can jump if left it from some height on a ball.in this experiment we are going to remove the shelf of egg without breaking it.

Let us do this experiment by doing an activity :

Requirement:

1. Eggs

2. Water

3. Vinegar

4. Flashlight 

5.bowl

Experiment:

Step1: put 1 whole raw egg in a glass of water.

Step2: put 1 whole raw egg in a glass of vinegar.

Step 3: The eggs are looking the same initially. Now leave them for a few hours.

Step 4: after few hours look at both the eggs. Do they still look the same. The egg in the water will remain unchanged,but the egg in the vinegar has changed.the shell has begun to dissolve in the vinegar, because the acid in the vinegar dissolve the calcium carbonate that is in the shell.

Step5: look carefully. Does the egg in the vinegar still have shell ? Touch it . Now it will feels like a rubber ball.ti press it to hard.

Step 6: leave both eggs alone for a week. After a week take the egg from the vinegar in a dark room and put a flash light on it the light bounces off the egg .

Step 7: now the time to make the egg to jump on bowl like rubber ball.take the egg out of vinegar. Hold the egg little bit over a bowl.

Step 8. Drop the egg ,you egg bounces! Try it again getting a little higher each time.