Crack an egg in space

Position the cracks over the egg where you want them then drag a box around everything to select it all. This will cut the cracks out of your egg. You can delete the extra parts of the slice. If you are wanting more than 1 egg in your design just duplicate the egg as many times as you want.

I wanted 3 eggs in my design so I duplicated the egg two times. If you want to move the top and bottom of the egg closer together or further apart then you will need to do a little more adjusting. Select the egg you want to adjust and then duplicate it. Click the top portion of the egg to delete it. Next select the duplicate you made of the original egg. Go to contour and click the bottom portion of the egg to delete it.

Repeat this process for your other eggs. Now you can add it whatever little extras you want. I put a name in the middle I used the Sherlyn font from Creative Fabrica and added some colored dots. Tuesday, 6 July An egg in space - or an egg in a vacuum - what would happen? This is a question that has been bugging us at work. What would happen to a chicken egg in space? Equally interesting is the question what would happen to a chicken egg if placed in a vacuum chamber?

Eggshells are able to withstand quite large forces from the outside because of their dome structure , but are not so strong from the inside. This makes sense - they need to be strong enough to withstand the force of the mother chook sitting on them, but need to be fragile enough from the inside for the baby chick to escape. If placed into a vacuum, would the pressure of the small amount of air inside the egg be enough to break the shell?

Let's assume for the sake of argument that the egg was laid at normal atmospheric pressure. Other things to consider include temperature. Would the egg white and egg yolk freeze and therefore expand?

This could break the shell. Is there enough empty space inside the egg into which the mainly water interior could expand? Or would this happen too suddenly? Is temperature actually a factor? Or perhaps a sudden change in pressure might cause the interior to rapidly boil, exploding the egg? Water only boils at degrees at normal atmospheric pressure - the more you lower the pressure, the lower the temperature that water boils at.

For instance, at the top of Mount Everest, the boiling point of water is 69 degrees. Human blood would boil in space except for the fact that our skin is strong enough to protect our blood from the rapid drop in pressure. Is an eggshell similarly strong, or is it too permeable? Is there a difference between the scenario where the egg is in space - let's say at about the Earth's orbit - and so is heated by the Sun or at least half of it , and in a vacuum chamber where there is no heat source?

As much as we like to ponder these questions, we don't have an answer. What do you think? Please feel free to speculate and throw ideas into the mix. For extra reading, check out the references for work conducted on hatching chickens in low gravity, and also hypergravity.

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Now what would happen to the egg if it didn't have a shell I'm also assuming its not boiled , would it fly apart, freeze solid or hold its eggy shape? My brains scrambled on this thread, I'm in a pickle and my braincells are fried! I think we need to prove that an egg will expand when frozen, for although eggs are mostly water, they aren't actually water but a compound of it: could someone please put an egg inside a food bag so it doesn't make a mess inside their freezer to prove the point?

This isn't because I disbelieve that the albumen and yolk expand when frozen but rather because I just think that it's not a safe assumption to make, just on the basis that they're mostly water. Anyway, if the albumen and yolk do expand when frozen, I don't think the air cell would help, for if the egg expands into the air cell volume it'll compress the air, which could then burst the shell by over pressuring it.

Eggshells aren't actually easy to open from the inside: the chicks need to put quite a bit of time and effort into it, but more to the point, they need to first fracture the shell using their 'egg-tooth' to get out and don't simply burst it by pressure. Like I said, pressure vessels are either spherical for very high pressures, or are cylindrical with rounded ends for lower pressures, to withstand rupture due to pressure.

However, should a small flaw be made in the vessel then its integrity and strength will be lost, which is how the chicks get out of them i. The vapour pressure of the water in the egg will be small less than 1 bar. The pressure generated by freezing water is big about bar.

I can put better estimates on those numbers if you want but there's about 3 orders of magnitude or more between them. I think an eggshell can cope with the less than an atmosphere of pressure that comes from the vapour pressure but I don't see it coping with the pressure that can burst metal pipes in winter.

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