Does Salt Make An Egg Float Experiment

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How much salt does it take to make an egg float? My experiment is about making an egg float with salt. My hypothesis was that I thought the egg would float because salt helps things rise faster. How I managed to test this experiment was I used five cups and I filled the cups with one cup of room temperature water. I started with three teaspoons of salt, and I added a teaspoon of salt in each cup until I reached six teaspoons of salt in my data I started out with no salt in the first cup I added 3 teaspoons of salt into the second cup and the egg barely floated, then I added 4 teaspoons of salt to the third cup and that’s when the egg started floating, I then added five teaspoons of salt into the 4th cup and the egg floated to the top I then

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