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An Unboiled Egg can win you a Nobel prize
Meritnation|Sep 24th, 2015 03:33pm
Yes, you read it right! Now it is possible to unboil an egg. Not only that, somebody has won a Nobel prize for it! 🙂
Well actually, a parody Nobel prize called the Ig Nobel. It may not sound like the most useful scientific achievements of all time but hey, it’s still cool. The Ig Nobel prizes honour achievements that make people laugh, and then push people to think.
Australian Chemistry Professor Colin Raston has been awarded an Ig Nobel prize for finding a way to unboil an egg. The professor from the Flinders University, Adelaide has built a machine which can unravel proteins. He had his ‘Eureka’ moment when he fed the machine with a boiled hen egg and it resulted uncooked. The machine he’s built is being called the Vortex Fluidic Device which works by unfolding the proteins in egg whites back to their natural state.
HOW DOES PROFESSOR RASTON’S VORTEX FLUIDIC DEVICE WORK?
The machine harnesses mechanical energy (spinning) to undo the work of thermal energy (cooking).
When an egg is boiled, proteins in the egg white begin to unravel then refold in a tight, tangled structure that gives the boiled egg its white, rubbery look.
The machine works by unfolding the proteins in egg whites back to their natural state.
Heat breaks up the bonds of proteins, which settle back into a more tightly bound mass.
Professor Raston’s idea is to spin those bound proteins so fast that they fly apart again — but this time, without heat, they snap back to their original shapes.
He said the device allowed more tightly controlled chemical processes to be performed, saving researchers time and reducing their materials wastage.
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1. shreya | September 29th, 2015 at 10:12 pm
its rlly cool!!!
2. Sreya Rajeev | September 29th, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Awesome invention. A salute to you Professor Raston
3. kalpana | September 29th, 2015 at 8:01 am
hmm#hope i could hv had such#bigbrains#luckyyyyy
4. kalpana | September 29th, 2015 at 8:00 am
#hossom really cool invention #looking forward 2 more such inventions#specially in INDIA#luv u my country#support me.com
5. ankita | September 28th, 2015 at 11:18 pm
that’s cool 😉
6. Ishika Gupta | September 28th, 2015 at 4:00 pm
wow that’s awesome.
7. Rachana | September 28th, 2015 at 2:22 pm
so coooooooool invention!!!!!!!!
8. Advaith | September 27th, 2015 at 11:42 pm
Super Invention
9. shrunkhala | September 27th, 2015 at 4:33 pm
it’s amazing
10. RIDAH | September 27th, 2015 at 2:41 pm
AMAZING…
11. pooja | September 26th, 2015 at 7:37 pm
A fabulous invention professor Rason!!!!!
12. parul agarwal | September 26th, 2015 at 7:25 pm
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW IT IS A REVERSIBLE CHANGE!!!!!!!!
REALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!
13. sreejita | September 26th, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Could be used in magic shows too! 😉
14. nithyashrri | September 26th, 2015 at 2:29 pm
awesome!!!!!
15. mahwish | September 26th, 2015 at 1:29 pm
IT IS AWESOME, AMAZING
16. Vaishnavi | September 26th, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Its jst awesome………
Superb invention:)
17. Aastha Mangal | September 25th, 2015 at 8:45 pm
Great ……I can not believe that such machine is in existence…
18. Prince | September 25th, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Jay jawan, Jay Kisan, Jay Vigyan
19. zeenat | September 25th, 2015 at 5:23 pm
That’s really great device…..fantastic discovery by professor Raston…!!!!!
20. Harsh Saini | September 25th, 2015 at 4:23 pm
Wow that’s a great achievement why didn’t i thought of it before i hope that in future someone would win a noble prize for making a dead person or ancient animals alive again using its fossils.
21. sehajdeep kaur | September 25th, 2015 at 4:20 pm
really awesom
22. Pratiksha Theodore | September 25th, 2015 at 3:41 pm
dats a cool nd funky acheivement wish i cud hv dat machine…!!!*_* Hmmm..!!So dis device can make d irreversible reactions into reversible rections…Sounds gr8..GUD JOB Professer Colin Raston..^_^
23. Vikalp | September 25th, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Really awesome device made by professor Raston..
24. Gauree | September 25th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
It’s Amazing…………
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25. Juliana | September 25th, 2015 at 11:40 am
Awesome. So is boiling an egg still a chemical reaction?? Just a thought 🙂
26. Riya Vardhan | September 25th, 2015 at 10:14 am
awesomeeeee………….
27. Shaheena Sheikh | September 25th, 2015 at 10:02 am
It’s amazing to read such an informative article…
Keep it up Meritnation///
28. santosh | September 25th, 2015 at 8:27 am
cool………….
really great………….
29. ilakkiya raja | September 25th, 2015 at 7:40 am
thatz gr8! fantastic achievement!
30. Yashasva | September 25th, 2015 at 6:03 am
Amazing 🙂
31. Sneha | September 24th, 2015 at 5:18 pm
It sounds cool !!!!!
32. Sneha | September 24th, 2015 at 5:18 pm
I am first
33. Sneha | September 24th, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Wow
34. Meghna | September 24th, 2015 at 5:12 pm
so cool
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