How to unboil an egg - Eleanor Nelsen
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It’s so obvious that it’s practically proverbial: you can’t unboil an egg. But actually, it turns out that you can -- sort of. Eleanor Nelsen explains the process by which mechanical energy can undo what thermal energy has done.
Why would large proteins be harder to untangle and refold than smaller ones?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Eleanor Nelsen
- Director Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araujo
- Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
- Narrator Addison Anderson
