Can you make an egg bounce? Well the answer is yes, you make an egg bounce by using just a few steps. You can make this even more fun by doing this with a couple of friends. First you will need an egg. Then get a bowl. Also you will need vinegar. After you have all those here is what you will need to do. Boil the egg or eggs that you have. After you boil the egg let it set for at least an hour. Then set the egg in a bowl. When you have all that done just put vinegar in the bowl with the hard boiled egg ( How to make a bouncy egg).
After letting the hard boiled egg set in the vinegar for three days take it out and let it set on a paper towel for a couple of minutes. After letting it set on the paper towel take the egg and set it under cold water to rinse off the remainings of the outside shell of the egg. If all the shell does not rinse off put the egg back in the vinegar for at least one more day. After that one more day take the egg out of the vinegar again and try to rinse off the rest of the shell like before. Then you have yourself a bouncy egg (How to make a bouncy egg). The egg should then swell up from this.
The egg swells up because the concentration of the liquid inside. Did you know that you do not have to have a boiled egg to make it bounce? If you do not boil the egg it just has to set in the vinegar longer. If the egg is not boiled it should set in the vinegar for at least four days. After setting in the vinegar for four days take the egg out of the bowl of vinegar. Then let it set on a paper towel for a couple of minutes. After you do that try to rinse the shell of off the egg (K. Nancy). If it does not rinse off all the way let the egg set in the vinegar for either a hour or a couple of hours.
After that take the egg out again and rinse the remainings of the shell off. Then you have a bouncy egg that was not hard boiled, and if the egg does not hold that well, use stronger vinegar. When you put the egg in the bowl with vinegar after a while there will be small bubbles around the egg. The bubbles will grow bigger as the time gets longer that the egg is in the bowl. Sometimes the egg will start to float to the top of the bowl or jar that you are using. The eggs will change colors too (K. Nancy). The colors will change from a brown color to a light brown kinda close to white color.
When the egg starts to change in color it means that the egg shell is dissolving. Sometimes the egg will expand as the egg sets in the bowl of vinegar for a long time. When the egg is in the jar or bowl of vinegar the outside of the egg which is the shell will start to come off a little. This experiment actually shows the process of osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of liquid from a solution of lower concentration to a more concentrated solution through a semi-solution substance. Permeable means fluid or gases are able to pass through the material (K. Nacy).
Did you know that you can make a bouncy egg, but it can glow in the dark? Here are the steps. Get your egg ready. You will need your egg, bowl with vinegar in it, and let the egg set in it until it is a bouncy egg. Then you will need a highlighter. Take the ink out of the highlighter. Let the ink set in the water until the colors all in the water. Then place your bouncy egg in the water to color it. Let the egg set in the water for about twenty-four hours (Egg bounce). Take the egg out. You could also get your egg to be different colors but it will not be glow in the dark.
Take an egg set it in a bowl with vinegar again. Take out after about two-three days. Rinse off the shell again. Then get another bowl put water in it and any color of food coloring. Put your egg in that bowl with the coloring and let it set for about twenty-four hours. After the twenty-fours has gone by take the egg out of the bowl. Now you have a colored bouncy egg to play with. If you wanted to color you bouncy egg a different way here is how you can do this (Future eventions). Take an egg let it set in a bowl of vinegar again then take the egg out after about two-three days.
Try to rinse the shell off of the egg. Take another bowl and put any color of kool-aid in the bowl. Put the egg in the bowl with the kool-aid. Let the egg set in the kool-aid for about twenty-four hours. After the egg has set in the kool-aid for twenty-four hours take the egg out of the bowl. Let the egg set on a paper towel for a few minutes before touching the egg. There is even more ways to color a bouncy egg. If you want a neon egg you need an egg boiled and put in a bowl with vinegar to make the egg bounce. (Acids- bouncing egg).
Then take a highlighter that is not yellow and put the ink in water. Put your bouncy egg in the bowl with the highlighter and let the egg set in the bowl for twenty-four hours. After twentyfour hours take the egg out of the bowl. Put the egg on a paper towel for a while to let the egg dry. You could add more colors to the egg if you want to make it look cool. Get a bowl put water in the bowl. Then take a different highlighter color and put it in the water. Set the same egg in the water. Take that egg out of the bowl after about twenty-four hours.
Put the egg on a paper towel to let it dry. One other way that you could dye your bouncy egg is using markers. Get a bowl put vinegar in the bowl then set your egg in it ( Acids-bouncing egg). Let the egg set in there for two-three days. After two-three days take the egg out try to rinse the remainings of the egg off. If the remainings do not come off put the egg back in the bowl with vinegar. Then let the egg set in the bowl for at least a couple of hours. After a couple of hours take the egg out of the bowl. Put the egg on something so it can dry off ( acids-bouncing egg)>.
Then to color the egg, take any kind of marker and take the ink out of the marker and put the ink in a bowl of water. Put your bouncing egg in the water with the marker in the water. Let the egg set in the water for at least twenty-four hours ( Future eventions). After the twenty-four hours has past take the egg out of the bowl. If you wanted you can put more colors on your egg by using a different color of maker. You will need a marker, bowl and the egg that you have already colored before with marker (Future eventions). Get yourself a bowl big enough for the egg to fit in.
Put water in the bowl and then put the different color of marker in the bowl of water. Set the colored egg in the water with a different color of marker. Let the egg set in the bowl for at least twenty-four hours. After the twenty-four hours has past take the egg out. Put the egg on something to let the egg dry off. Then you have a different colored egg by using markers (Future eventions). After you have colored any of your hard boiled eggs, and put them in a bowl with vinegar to make the egg or eggs bounce, you can now bounce your egg and you could also have a competition with them.
When you start to bounce the eggs start at a lower range because if you start off really high the egg will break. Put the egg about two inches from the ground and watch the egg bounce. If that goes well then you could go higher. This project is fun to do with family and friends (Acids-bouncing egg). . Did you know that vinegar was the main source of making the egg change to where it could be able to bounce? The vinegar reacts with the calcium that is on the shell and then makes the egg able to bounce. The inside of the egg still stays the same.
If you do not boil the egg the yolk is still runny, if you end up busting the egg yolk will go everywhere. If the egg is boiled the yolk will be hard and it will not go anywhere. Tenjoyed this project a lot. I learned that vinegar could actually make an egg bounce which is really cool cause now I could do this activity when I have some friends over. I enjoyed learning about what the vinegar does to make the egg bounce. One cool thing that I liked about this project was that you could make a neon or glow in the dark bouncy egg.
