I was doing an egg experiment that I found on line where you put an egg in white vinegar and the shell softens. It said to leave the egg for seven days. At the end of the fourth day the white of the egg which had already softened fell totally off the egg. Now my experiment for class is a flop. Why and what should I have done differently.

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I was doing an egg experiment that I found on line where you put an egg in white vinegar and the shell softens.  It said to leave the egg for seven days.  At the end of the fourth day the white of the egg which had already softened fell totally off the egg.  Now my experiment for class is a flop. Why and what should I have done differently.

PsyDAG · Answer

Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "egg vinegar" to get these possible sources:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/eggs/activity-naked.html
http://www.kidzone.ws/science/egg.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Naked-Egg
http://homepage.eircom.net/~kogrange/4th_ys_vinegar.html
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/bi9524.html

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search.

I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.