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How to unboil an egg - Eleanor Nelsen

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It’s so obvious that it’s practically proverbial: you can’t unboil an egg. But actually, it turns out that you can -- sort of. Eleanor Nelsen explains the process by which mechanical energy can undo what thermal energy has done.

When the egg goes from raw to boiled, the egg whites' proteins start _____ and end up _____.

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  • Educator Eleanor Nelsen
  • Director Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araujo
  • Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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