I promise there'll be a proper blog post when it's actually daytime and I have energy, but for now I'm still coming down from my well-wasn't-that-neat post-lab high. The experiment we did today was about osmosis, which I'll get to at some point, and it involved plain old chicken eggs.
If you've never done this, try soaking a regular egg in vinegar for a few nights. The hard outer shell slowly dissolves, leaving that clear membrane that you usually have to tear off when you're peeling a hard-boiled egg. It's tougher than you'd think, and you're left with a transparent goo-ball of an egg! You can see the yolk bobbling around in there and everything.
Yeah, not very sciencey compared to my usual fare, but it's something to do if you're really bored. Or with your kid or something. I bet kids would love this (or at least be entertained by it for a few minutes).
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