Dissolving Egg Experiment

Results This experiment’s results revealed that the higher the temperature of vinegar that the egg was placed in, the less time it took for the eggshell to dissolve. A data trend showed that eggs in vinegar at a temperature of 62.8C took around twelve hours to completely dissolve their eggshell. Eggs set in vinegar at 24.5C took about sixteen hours to dissolve their eggshell and eggs in 1C vinegar took about twenty hours or more (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3).

Figure 1. This line graph illustrates the amount of time in hours it took for the varying temperatures (1C, 24.5C, 62.8C) of vinegar to dissolve each egg’s entire shell during the first trial.

Figure 2. This line graph illustrates the amount of time in hours it took for the varying temperatures (1C, 24.5C, 62.8C) of vinegar to dissolve each egg’s entire shell during the second trial.

Figure 3. This line graph illustrates the amount of time in hours it …show more content…
This experiment and hypothesis was made in relation to climate change and its effect on coral reefs. The hypothesis stated “if climate change pursues, then the earth’s coral will die.” This experiment with eggs in different temperatures of vinegar supported both of these related hypotheses. It portrayed a trend of vinegar at higher temperatures, i.e., 24.5C and 62.8C, taking less time to dissolve the shell of an egg than the egg in vinegar kept inside a refrigerator at 1C (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3). These results reinforced the Collision theory of atoms and how increasing temperature increases the rate of a chemical reaction. When a substance is heated, its “particles move faster” and “collide more frequently” (Clark, 2002). Therefore, the reaction rate is increased. In this case, vinegar was heated and its particles moved faster to quicken the reaction of dissolving the calcium carbonate in