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How to Make an Egg Explode

Explosions, even small ones, grab the attention of everyone around. When you combine the excitement of an explosion with the inherent mess of an egg, you have a recipe for fun and probably even some trouble. But there are ways of exploding eggs without making a mess. The trick is to increase the pressure inside the egg rapidly causing it to explode. There are a few ways of achieving this, one is in a microwave and the other is with hydrogen gas.

Things You'll Need

Microwave oven
Needle
Paper clip
Zinc
Hydrochloric acid
Glass Erienmeyer flask and stopper with 1 hole
Tube to fit stopper hole
Butane lighter
Soft drink bottle, 2 liter
Knife
Safety glasses

Instructions

Microwave
- 1
  Place the egg on a microwave safe plate and set it in the microwave.
- 2
  Set the time for 10 minutes on high and press "Start."
- 3
  Wait for the egg to explode. Depending on the wattage of your microwave, this can take anywhere from 3 to 8 minutes.
Hydrogen Exploding Egg
- 4
  Cut the top off of the soft drink bottle with a knife making a funnel. The cut does not have to be perfectly straight, but enough so that the funnel is stable sitting on the wide end.
- 5
  Pierce a hole in both ends of an egg using a straight pin and extreme care to prevent the entire egg from shattering.
- 6
  Straighten out a paperclip and stick the end in one end of the egg. Mix up the yolk and egg white with the paper clip.
- 7
  Blow the contents of the egg by blowing on one hole and the letting the scrambled egg exit the other hole you pierced.
- 8
  Put on the safety glasses and pour hydrochloric acid into a glass Erienmeyer flask to a depth of 1 or 2 inches.
- 9
  Drop zinc into the hydrochloric acid and wait for the reaction to start.
- 10
  Put the stopper into the flask and set the hole on one end of the egg over the end of tube until the gas runs out the top.
- 11
  Cover the top hole on the egg partially with your finger and let the egg shell fill with hydrogen gas.
- 12
  Remove the egg from the tube and set it upright on the soda bottle funnel.
- 13
  Ignite the top end of the egg with the lighter. When the ratio of hydrogen to oxygen reaches 2 to 1, the egg will explode with a loud pop.

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