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- robvstheworld, on 10/12/2007, -5/+231That had absolutely nothing to do with x-rays.
- Gnascher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82Egg shells are primarily calcium.
Vinegar dissolves calcium.
In the end, you are left with the membrane that lines the inside of the shell, which is primarliy collagen.
X-rays need not apply.
Yay science. - SouthernDigger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+59It also had absolutely nothing to do with throwing a bouncy egg against a wall... which is what I was hoping for even more.
- irieKEN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Everything about the headline is wrong; it has nothing to do with x-rays, and there's not even a damn shell!
All that happened is that someone stuck the egg in vinegar so that the vinegar ate away the calcium shell. All that was left at the end of the second day was the translucent membrane that is on the inside of the shell. - RooDoG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Hello there 5th grade Science Class
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34There is no such thing as a "color x-ray" unless you have software that artificially colors the images..
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38For roosterjm2k2...
"Common usage" of a word isn't worth anything. It is just for morons to make themselves think they are smarter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_ray
X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometres, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 to 30 000 PHz (1015 hertz). X-rays are primarily used for diagnostic radiography and crystallography. X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation and as such can be dangerous. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Finally, now I know how to get rid of the bones from that dead hooker in my basement.
- imlikewoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27and this is in comedy videos....why?
- PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Knowledge is power!
- 98acura, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Its an act of terrorism...
- masterofsw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Ok, someone with a farm, do this with a fertilized egg please.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Because the title is hilarious.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I really wanted to see him break (pop?) the egg when he was squeezing it at the end.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It would really neat to do this to a fertilized egg and see the growing chick inside... but the vinegar would almost certainly seep though the shell and kill the chick :(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"Why is everyone a freakin' scientist on digg?"
Because we're NEEEEEEERDS! - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Gosh you guys are all idiots, everyone knows X-rays are produced by vinegar. How the heck do you think X-ray machines work at the doctors??? Morons.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14And knowing is half the battle..... GI-JOOOOEEEEEEEE!!!
- edmondsonj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I did that when I was a Little Kid.
Great School project/easy extra credit - SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Come on Mr. Wizard did this like 20 years ago.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11We're not freaking scientist, we're just smarter than everyone else. I did expect an x-ray image of an egg, but this is still pretty neat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Vinegar - Apply Directly to Egg
Vinegar - Apply Directly to Egg - PaulRay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think soaking your kids in vinegar is mean... Oh, wait... you meant... Uh... Never mind. :-P
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah I remember the show inspired me to do it myself. It's ridiculous how squishy the egg actually gets. From what I remember you could drop it from a pretty decent distance from the floor and it wouldn't break.
I wish I could find a digital archive of all of the Mr. Wizard shows, that was a good one. - Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Stupid and misleading, should almost be a white house press release.
- LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We did that in 5th grade, and even we knew ti had nothing to do with x-rays back then.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4earl507, try hydrochloric acid - much faster.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just to correct irie a bit...
What actually happens is the acidic solution eats away the calcium of the shell *while* slowly cooking the egg's outer parts... so its like a very very very very slow hard boiled egg, so when you pull it out after a while, the insides are still good. - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I did that as an experiment in middle school. :|
It's still cool though. They bounce when dropped from about a half meter high. :D - 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8umm... where are the x-rays? inaccurate.
:-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Do you really want to eat an egg that has been sitting out on your counter for 3 days?
- patrickloggins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3..and 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th...
Can't they get a little creative? - rosemat2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remember doing this exact same thing in 7th grade Science class
- CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lamest. Title. Ever.
Color X-ray? WTF is that supposed to mean? This is an experiment people do in elementary school. It's fun and it looks cool, but the submitter definitely could have come up with a better headline. Just saying "Color X-ray" sounds moronic. Yeesh. - LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ours broke when we tried that. :(
- nykwil, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Holy crap vinegar works like x-rays!!!
- dramaDodger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They left out the best part. After you get rid of the shell (with vinegar or by boiling and peeling) find a bottle or jar or any glass container with an opening just slightly smaller than what the egg can fit through. Now light a piece of paper (about the size of a dollar or so) on fire and drop it inside the bottle. Quickly set the egg on top of the bottle opening while the paper is still burning and watch the egg get sucked right into the bottle. But... didn't we all do this when we were in... oh... 5th grade?
- aximbigfan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3marked as inacturate, there is no xray..
- joemono, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Does that guy have a coke nail?
- cvrefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The squeezing part creeped me out a bit...
- LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's amazing how so many of us did this in fifth grade, I wonder if it's on some super secret hidden curriculum somewhere.
- darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2why the hell is this on the front page!? I did this in the fourth grade! this is lame, and inaccurate
- bob12321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I also did that some were around 5Th grade.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This would have made an awesome eyeball substitute for Halloween.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2marked as innacurate. you must be pretty stupid to write a title as bad as that.
- FlapJaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess an egg immersed in vinegar also changes your black bowls into transparent ones too.
(cool.. gotta try this!) - streak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There should be a constitutional ban against such treatment of eggs!
- Tolzmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i did this as a school project in 7th grade... my classmates kept on bursting the egg membrane and nasty egg stuff would come out
- boza111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2haha thats what i thought
- CrumpetUp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3to zippo who said "this would almost certainly kill the chick" if they used a fertilized egg... um, duh. just taking it out of the incubator would be enough to kill the chick, let alone taking its environment and saturating it with a foreign substance. plus it would be a waste of a perfectly good and tasty chicken.
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