how do you keep a raw egg from braking when dropped?
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Eggs don't brake, they break.  \n\nMake sure it drops onto some soft foam.  Then it won't break.
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You make a tall tube of the toothpicks with a hexagonal cross section. Kinda like a jenga stack, only hollow and six sides. You make the interior hollow just smaller than the egg and don't glue strongly.\n\nWhen it hits with the egg at top, the egg will force it's way down into the hollow center of the tube (like a paperwad in a straw), breaking toothpick bonds as it goes down. \n\nYou might have to experiment, but the energy of the egg will be transferred to the breaking of the bonds holding the toothpick tube together and the egg will slow.\n\nPut egg on tube narrow end down.
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Wrap in bubble wrap and put in a tube or a box thats how i did it.  it survived a 30 foot fall.
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how do i like my eggs...
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Just about any method will work as long as the final deceleration is minimized. Depending on the height of the building, wrapping it in three layers of two-inch thick egg-crate foam with an outer layer of one-inch thick ethylfoam should cushion the shock sufficiently.
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If you leave an egg in vinegar long enough the shell will disolve leaving only the inner membrane.  It's pretty cool.  I've done it quite a few times.
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Soak a raw egg in vinegar overnigt.  The shell on the egg will become rubberized and actually bounce.
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As an egg gets older, it produces hydrogen sulfide, a gas. The gas moves to one end of the egg. To see how old an egg is, place it in a pan of water. If it floats, don't use it. If it stays on the bottom but points up, it is getting old, but I still use them. If it stays on the bottom, flat, it is fresh.\n\nYou can tell if an egg is hard-boiled by spinning it. If it spins easily and fast, it is hard boiled!\n\nHope this helps!
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there is an science project that you put a whole uncooked egg in  vinegar and see how long it take for the vinegar to break the eggs shell down and make the shell soft and you just monitor the progress it's very cool cause you would never think that an eggs shell could turn soft you can also to give it more depth by trying other liquids and compare them
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Several years ago a nurse in my gynecologist office told me to place a pillow under my bottom during sex, and continue to keep it there for several hours afterward, such as overnite. This lets the semen flow directly to the eggs.\nNot sure how accurate the info is but, it worked for me.
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when air is compressed, it heats up. this could be circulated within the incubator to warm the eggs.
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Soak an egg in vinegar for about 2 days (?). The vinegar (ethanoic acid) acts on the egg shell (calcium carbonate) and denatured the contents of the egg, until ultimately, the whole egg becomes rubbery. You can actually then bounce the egg and it won't break.
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The following web site provides the science of boiling an egg:\n\nhttp://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/egg/
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Best method if practical is to freeze it.\nIf not sealed within a steralized container.
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Multiple boxes with Marshmellows taped on the surfaces - the layers of marshmellows will absorb the impact.\n\nYou make the three boxes, and line Marshmellows on each interior surface\n\n1 Small box, with about a 1/2 inch clearance on all sides. The egg goes in here. Tape a layer of marshmellows on all interior surfaces of the box.\n\n1 medium box - 1/2 inch larger than the small box - another layer of marshmellows on all interior surfaces.\n\n1 Large box - 1/2 inch larger than the medium box - yet another layer of marshmellows on all interior surfaces.\n\nIf you're really unsure, you can even do a 4th box, or stuff loose marshmellows around the egg in the open spaces.\n\nThis method is better than others because:\n1) The egg isn't submerged in any substances\n2) You can get all of the materials very cheaply (1 bag of marshmellows is plenty)\n3) All materials are recyclable
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It doesn't say that the egg has to land on the concrete pavement!  Only that it is dropped 5 feet above a concrete pavement!  So I suppose you could have 5 feet of mattresses and lift the egg up about an inch or so and drop it down onto the mattresses, so that it was actually being dropped "5 feet above a concrete pavement without it breaking and without catching it"!\n\nBasically a play on words as this is:\n\nJUMP TABLES: Bet a bunch of friends that you can put three tables together, take your shoes and socks off and jump over them. They'll be anxious to bet that you can't. Take the bet money in hand then proceed to push the three tables together, take off your shoes and socks and jump over the shoes and socks. Then pick up your stuff and run as fast as you can!\n\nOr (with props the below):\n\nI would go with this: "The winning entry used "Rice Krispies" breakfast cereal in sandwich bags to enclose their egg."\n\n"Our technical support dept received the following question about dropping eggs:\n"I have been searching your web pages trying to find out how I can drop a regular raw egg off a roof without it breaking. Years ago I did this in a physics class, but cannot remember what I did. There is nothing in your web pages regarding this. My 7 yr. old grandson and I would like to do it. Could you help ?"\n\nNormally we can only answer questions related to our products, but we felt this question deserved a reply. To get a broad range of replies we asked the readers of our e-mail newsletter for help. \nSome of the answers we received\nGet an egg-eating snake, give it the egg and wait until the egg is about half way down the snake, then fit the snake with tail flights (cf a dart), then drop said snake plus egg from bridge etc.. The front of the snake will act as a crumple zone, thereby protecting the egg (makes a mess of the snake, but that is outside the parameters of the experiment) Then cut open the snake and remove the egg (snake already deceased, so this is no longer an ethical problem)\n\nIts really quite simple- can't imagine how he's forgotten that he dropped it while it was still inside the hen! Just make sure it's not a hen with clipped wings-specially if the roof is high...... \n\nTheory has it that, given sufficient height, aerodynamics will cause the egg to align itself to land on the blunter of the two ends. The egg is remarkably strong in this orientation. As long as it falls onto a reasonably forgiving surface, a lawn maybe, it won't break - sometimes!\nSafer bet is for Grandad to drop a hard boiled one and palm his stunned Grandson a raw one. \n\nI recently dropped an egg from a roof-top and was able to achieve a drop of some 15 metres without the egg breaking. How? The roof was 16 metres from the ground. It was that last metre that always did the damage.\n\nHold the egg carefully in your hands and jump off the roof. \nPut the egg in the middle of a 1 foot square styrene block. \nTake the roof off, sit it on the ground and roll the egg of the edge of the roof next to the ground. \nImmerse the egg in liquid nitrogen first \nFit the egg with a parachute. \n\nIt's really very simple, the clue is to spread all the force during the retardation phase (landing) on the COMPLETE surface of the egg. In this way, the resulting (vector) forces will be zero. In other words: The forces will "become a pressure" instead. And, since the egg may be compared to a pressure vessel (the surface is curved and can thus take really a lot of pressure before breaking) the egg will not break if you put it in strong bottle filled with water before dropping it!\n\nThis is the classical solution to the problem. I have never worked it out myself but it should work as long as the bottle itself is strong enough (do a test by dropping the bottle filled with just water before doing the test in front of an audience).\n\ncenter the egg in a nylon stocking. \nstretch
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Consider where the egg is strong.  An egg will support over 100 pounds in one direction and can be crushed by most people's hands in the perpendicular direction.  Set the egg such that it will not rotate inside the frame.  Try to secure the egg at the strong points.  Weight the frame so that it falls with the strong point down.  Use air resistance to encourage the placement in free fall.  I have seen soda straws used well.  I have also seen other means.  A crush-able device will absorb a lot of impact.  Give the egg time to slow before stopping.  Springs have also been used.  I guess you could surround the egg with springs inside a semi-crush-able container.  The crush would absorb a little while the springs got the rest.  Think: springs don't have to be made of metal.  Get creative.