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    Egg Shell Geodes PDF

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    Melannie Magalong
    This document provides instructions for making egg shell geodes, which demonstrates how real geodes are formed in rocks. The project uses eggshells filled with super-saturated solutions of soluble solids like salt, sugar, or borax. As the water in the solutions evaporates, crystals will form inside the eggshells over several days, mimicking how minerals crystallize in rock pores and cavities. The instructions explain how to prepare the eggshells, make super-saturated solutions by dissolving solids in hot water, add food coloring, and allow the crystals to form as the solutions evaporate.

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    This document provides instructions for making egg shell geodes, which demonstrates how real geodes are formed in rocks. The project uses eggshells filled with super-saturated solutions of soluble solids like salt, sugar, or borax. As the water in the solutions evaporates, crystals will form inside the eggshells over several days, mimicking how minerals crystallize in rock pores and cavities. The instructions explain how to prepare the eggshells, make super-saturated solutions by dissolving solids in hot water, add food coloring, and allow the crystals to form as the solutions evaporate.

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    This document provides instructions for making egg shell geodes, which demonstrates how real geodes are formed in rocks. The project uses eggshells filled with super-saturated solutions of soluble solids like salt, sugar, or borax. As the water in the solutions evaporates, crystals will form inside the eggshells over several days, mimicking how minerals crystallize in rock pores and cavities. The instructions explain how to prepare the eggshells, make super-saturated solutions by dissolving solids in hot water, add food coloring, and allow the crystals to form as the solutions evaporate.

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    Egg Shell Geodes PDF

    Uploaded by

    Melannie Magalong
    This document provides instructions for making egg shell geodes, which demonstrates how real geodes are formed in rocks. The project uses eggshells filled with super-saturated solutions of soluble solids like salt, sugar, or borax. As the water in the solutions evaporates, crystals will form inside the eggshells over several days, mimicking how minerals crystallize in rock pores and cavities. The instructions explain how to prepare the eggshells, make super-saturated solutions by dissolving solids in hot water, add food coloring, and allow the crystals to form as the solutions evaporate.

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    MAKE SOME

    EGG SHELL GEODES


    This project comes to us from Melissa Howard who is a Mom,
    Blogger, and photographer. This project nicely demonstrates
    how real-life geodes are formed in igneous and sedimentary
    rock. It also demonstrates super-saturated solutions and
    shows a nice variety of crystal shapes and formations.

    YOU WILL NEED:


    • clean eggshells
    • water
    • a variety of soluble solids: table salt, rock salt,
    sugar, baking soda, Epsom salts, sea salt, borax, or cream of tartar
    • small heat proof containers (coffee cups work well)
    • spoons
    • food coloring
    • egg cartons and wax paper or mini-muffin tins

    WHAT TO DO:
    1. Crack the eggs for this project as close to the narrow end as possible. This preserves more egg to use
    as a container for the solution.
    2. Clean the eggshells using hot water. The hot water cooks the lining and allows you to pull the skin (egg
    membrane) out of the inside of the egg using your fingers. Make sure to remove all the egg membrane,
    if any membrane stays inside the shell it is possible that your eggshell will grow mold and your crystals
    will turn black.
    3. Use an egg carton lined with waxed paper or mini-muffin tins to hold the eggs upright.
    4. Use a saucepan to heat the water to boiling. .
    5. Pour half a cup to a cup of water into your heatproof container. If you poured half a cup of water into
    the container, add about a ¼ cup of solid to the water. Stir it until it dissolves. Likewise if you used a
    cup of water, add about ½ a cup of solid to the water. You wanted to add about half again the volume of
    the water as a solid to the mixture. When the initial amount of solid is dissolved continue adding small
    amounts of the solid until the water is super-saturated. Super-saturated simply means the water has
    absorbed all it is able to absorb and any solid you add will not dissolve.
    6. Add food coloring.
    7. Carefully pour your solution into the eggshell, filling it as full as possible without over-flowing it or
    causing it to tip.

    Find a safe place to put your shells while the water evaporates. Crystals will form inside the eggshells as
    the water evaporates over several days.

    HOW DOES IT WORK?


    Dissolving the crystals in hot water created what is called a “super-saturated solution.” This basically
    means that the salts took advantage of the energy of the hot water to help them dissolve until there was no
    more space between molecules in the solution. As the solution cooled, the water lost its energy and the
    crystals are forced from the solution to become a solid again. Since this happens slowly along with the
    evaporation, the crystals have time to grow larger than they were when the experiment started. Natural
    geodes in rock are form in much the same way as mineralized water seeps into air pockets in rock. This is
    also how rock candy crystals are formed.

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