question_answer 114)

  How can you remove the hard calcium carbonate layer of the egg without damaging its semipermeable membrane? Can this egg be inserted into a bottle with a narrow neck without distorting its shape? Explain the process involved.

Answer:

                  When egg is placed in mineral acid solution outershell of egg dissolves. Egg is now removed and placed in hypertonic solution. Size of egg get reduced and egg shrivels due to osmosis. Egg is now placed in a bottle with narrow neck. Finally on adding hypotonic solution egg regain its shape due to osmosis. Diagramatically it can be represented as