Materials

- Beaker
- Raw egg
- Vinegar

1) Gather the following materials: raw egg, beaker and vinegar.

2) Write your name on tape and label the beaker

3) Measure the mass of the raw egg and record it.

4) FIll beaker with vinegar

5) Place egg in vinegar solution. Make sure it is submerged.

Hypothesis: Predict how the egg will respond when left in vinegar for 24 hours.

(3)
Day Mass of Egg in Observations
grams

1 1)

2)

2 1)

2)

3 1)

2)

Reflection

1) What do you think would happen to a shell-less (naked) egg if water passed into the egg
through the membrane? (1)
 2) What do you think would happen to a naked egg if water passed out of the egg through
the membrane? (1)

3) What happened to the size of the egg after remaining in vinegar? (1)

4) Why did the egg change size? (Use words such as: molecules, concentration, low, and
high) (2)

5) Vinegar is made up of 5% acetic acid and 95% water.

a) What effect did the acetic acid have on your egg? (1)

b) What effect did the water have on your egg? (1)

Part B

Procedure.

1) Take your naked egg out of the vinegar and place it into corn syrup.
1) What changed in the egg from the vinegar to the corn syrup? (1)

2) Was water moving into the egg or out of the egg? How do you know? Make sure to use
proper terminology. (2)