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Eggs can melt?

• cooperadymas 3y ago
  Didn't you hear the OP? It's 100% possible.
• ahoka 3y ago
  Even diamonds can melt. Coincidentally they melt at the same temperature.
  • mcpackieh 3y ago
    Carbon will never melt at atmospheric pressure, you need more than 100 atmospheres of pressure to melt carbon. Otherwise it just sublimates straight to gas.
    • chmod600 3y ago
      What gas does it sublimate into?
      • mcpackieh 3y ago
        Gaseous carbon.
• DharmaPolice 3y ago
  Chocolate eggs sure can.
• srcreigh 3y ago
  If you freeze them first, sure
• eurekin 3y ago
  Theoretically, in a ozone-less environment and providing they don't sublime first
  • marcosdumay 3y ago
    Hum... Nope. Eggs are not homogeneous substances or mixtures for what the word "melt" even makes sense. But also, most of an egg's mass is composed of substances that suffer chemical transformations in much lower temperatures than other parts can melt (at any pressure). Even if there is no oxygen on your environment, an egg will decompose itself before all of it is molten.
    • eurekin 3y ago
      Interesting. I assumed that if rocks can melt, so would any substance given enough heat. Granted, not without chemical interactions (I assumed burning wouldn't count), but with protein they would at least unfold (denaturate). This paper seems to at least hint at the possibility: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21095941/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21095941/
• aaomidi 3y ago
  Maybe google it? Oh…wait