Eggs!

With spring in the air and Easter around the corner, Spring Break seemed like a great time to make some naked eggs!

Step one: Place uncooked eggs into vinegar.

 Bubbles, must be working!

Step two: 24 hours later remove eggs, gently rub off excess shell and place back into vinegar for another 24hrs.

Step three: Compare the size of a naked egg to a regular egg.  The layer under the shell is permeable and allows water to enter to equalize the pressure inside the egg to the outside.

 Step four: For more fun, now add the naked eggs to colored water.  If you put a naked egg into corn syrup it will shrink since corn syrup has low water content.  We used oil to see what would happen.

Step five: Amazingly all four eggs made it through the entire process. Not much change in the egg in oil, but the ones in the colored water became saturated with those colors.

 We broke them outside into the garden.  The skin of the colored eggs looked like deflated balloons.

And that is one of the things that kept us busy over spring break!  Now go out and enjoy your spring weather!