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Rubber Egg

Author:     adstaudt
Text:       When you soak an egg in vinegar overnight why does it turn to 
rubber?

Response #:  1 of 1
Author:      Joe Schultz
Text:        The egg shell is make mostly of calcium carbonate.  When soaked 
in vinegar, which is an acid (acetic acid), the carbonate neutralizes the acid 
and in the process gets used up.  The clear, rubbery 'shell' is the membrane 
that lines the inside of the egg.

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