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Egg in a Bottle
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How can you put an egg which is 5 cm in diameter into a bottle with a mouth that is 2 cm in diameter? You may not damage the bottle in any way.
Hint
1. The egg is raw.2. This is a Trick question, not a Science question!
Answer
1. Poke holes in the egg and drain the contents into the bottle2. Crumble up the eggshell and drop it into the bottle
I never said that the egg had to be intact inside the bottle!
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Clever. However, it is actually possible to get a full egg into a bottle using heat. The best example of this experiment is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7aCWFcuKJE
This is schoolboy stuff!
Nice!
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I'm aware of the experiment, and I think many people are. The 'trick' is people thinking of the experiment where you light a candle inside a bottle, creating reduced pressure inside the bottle which sucks a (boiled) egg placed at the bottle's mouth into the bottle. But I never asked for the egg to be intact. ;)
I'm aware of the experiment, and I think many people are. The 'trick' is people thinking of the experiment where you light a candle inside a bottle, creating reduced pressure inside the bottle which sucks a (boiled) egg placed at the bottle's mouth into the bottle. But I never asked for the egg to be intact. ;)
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