Add some green food colouring to the egg white
Ask an adult to help you cook the egg, just like a normal egg. Make sure everyone is watching when you eat your green eggs!
What’s happening?
You were able to suck the egg yolk into the bottle thanks to the difference in pressure created between the inside and outside of the bottle.
An empty bottle actually has something in it – air! Air is made up of tiny particles. The force of all these particles pushing on an object is called air pressure. And, air pressure changes depending on how tightly packed the air particles are.
If a large amount of air is forced into a small container, the air particles won’t have much room to move about, putting high pressure on the walls of the container. In a larger container, the same amount of air particles has more room to spread out, reducing the pressure on the walls of the container.
When you squeezed the bottle, you forced some air out and created a smaller volume inside it. By releasing the squeeze on the bottle, the volume increased. This created a pressure difference, where the air pressure inside the bottle became lower than the air pressure outside the bottle. The higher pressure outside the bottle then forced air (and the egg yolk) inside the bottle!
Real-life science
A difference in pressure causes something that we experience every day: wind!
Air is warmed by the Sun, which gives the air particles more energy and makes them spread out. Wind is created as the warm air (low pressure) rises into the atmosphere, causing colder air (high pressure) to move in and replace it.
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