Monday, November 19, 2012

Day 4 Egg Lab

Looking MUCH different than yesterday!!
Friday we wrapped up the egg lab and saw what happened when you placed a shriveled egg into pure water (or close to it).
Many of you attempted to "bounce" the egg
that was now full of water

And the best part of all - disposing of the eggs!

We saw that the eggs had grown MUCH larger in size and were actually a bit "bouncy."  We also observed that there was much less water in the beaker than we placed the day before.  Since the egg had just moved out of water THIS was the first time we could actually see osmosis happen.  Remember, osmosis is the diffusion of water across a membrane.  All the other days of the lab we were observing simple diffusion of vinegar.




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