MadSci Network: Zoology |
If the mass is the same and the volume is the same, what may be say about the density? You don't need the shell to boil a egg. Make some measurements before and after. Take a fresh egg, stand it in a glass of vinegar overnight to corrode off the shell, and (carefully!) do the boiling experiment. Is the shell important to the phenomenon occuring? A close look a the egg itself less its shell versus the complete volumetric contents of the shell will tell you how the boyancy can change so much with so little apparent mass transfer. What has lots of volume but almost no density? Why does an old egg so happily float? Uncle Al!
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