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.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Provincia Studio.



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