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glowing egg experiment-please answer soon!?

in the glowing egg experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4_MvskqBYQ

why does only 1 in three eggs glow?

also: I am doing this for a science fair how should I make this into a question that shows I 'ponder' something?

Update:

because the 'pondering' is required

Update 2:

nevermind!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    For the pondering, you can organize your experiment to answer a question (which you will have pondered) like 'what percent of eggs will glow in this experiment?' Then do the experiment along the lines of using a dozen eggs of each of three different brands from three different grocery stores, and keeping track of how many glow in each batch and how many glow in total.

    And with regards as to why only one in three eggs glow, well that appears to be something intrinsic to the eggs. That is, although the three eggs look the same, something about that third one makes it different. We don't know for sure what it is, but the video gives some hints to ponder as possibilities. For example, the video says that the eggs need at least 12% of their whites to be a particular albumin; perhaps the other two eggs are below 12%. Or maybe the chickens ate something different, maybe the shells are less permeable to the chemical used, maybe some chickens lack the gene for the protein in question, maybe the microwave oven was too powerful and denatured the proteins by warming them, maybe the microwave oven wasn't powerful enough, and so on.

    And note that keeping track of the separate batches of eggs might actually help you evaluate the possibilities for why only one egg in three glows.

    hth.

    Source(s): Another nice egg video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3GBCtoRDo
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    5 years ago

    Glowing Egg Experiment

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