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What does vinegar to egg shell?

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Well when I did my science project on this when i first I had 3/4 up of vinegar in a plastic cup put the egg into the vinegar you could see the acids from the vinegar and egg building up. On the second day, there was a lot of bubblie white stuff in the top of the plasic cup i had.

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It dissolves the shell. Vinegar is dilute acetic acid, and the shell is mostly calcium carbonate. Vinegar has, among other things, a chemical called Acetic Acid (about 3% of it is acetic acid). Egg shells contain calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate in the egg shell reacts with vinegar to form carbon dioxide (can be seen as bubbles in the vinegar).

The reaction is: CaCO3+ 2H+ -> Ca+2 + H2O +CO2

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Egg shells dissolve in vinegar. This is because vinegar contains acetic acid and egg shells contain calcium carbonate, which reacts with the vinegar to form carbon dioxide.

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If an egg is left in vinegar for a period of time, at least a few days, the egg shell will dissolve and you will be left with an egg contained in a membrane rather than a shell.

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