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  • Neato
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    551 year ago

    You can melt anything. An egg will burn first. Then you will get some type of rendered carbon ash. Which will, eventually, melt and/or vaporize with enough heat.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Melting is a physical process that changes the form and aggregation state of a thing, but it still remains that thing. Melted gold is still gold, for example.

      Burning on the other hand is a chemical process that leads to new “things”. The egg isn’t longer an egg.

        • radix
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          31 year ago

          Water isn’t an element, but it still adheres to these rules.

    • @[email protected]
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      451 year ago

      I would argue that it’s no longer ‘egg’ once it’s carbon ash and therefore never melted before it’s existence ended.

    • @[email protected]
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      241 year ago

      Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn’t have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      Eggs are primarily comprised of colloidal suspension.

      Colloids cannot melt, as they are not in a solid phase

    • Troy
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      81 year ago

      Which raises an interesting question: what if you cooked it in a zero oxygen environment (say argon, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide… basically welding gases because they’re mostly inert). I can’t burn in that context, so does it melt? Or do you drive off all the volatiles and are just left with carbon anyway?

      • @[email protected]
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        If you heat carbon based stuff without oxygen a process called pyrolysis happens. It separates the components into their molecules and molecules into smaller molecules with less weight. During this process you can gain different materials.

        Not sure what kind of products are possible with the pyrolysis of egg + welding gases though lol

        If you heat carbon in a vacuum (via radiation) you can get melted carbon!

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          If you heat carbon in a vacuum, it sublimates straight to gas. If you heat it under extreme pressure in an inert gas atmosphere, then it can melt. Unfortunately creating such pressures in the lab is only possible with diamond anvil presses, which are themselves carbon and thus tend to sublimate from the heat, resulting in pressure vessel failure. Doing the experiment on the surface of a neutron star would work, but presents some other difficulties.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      In an inert atmosphere under enough pressure pretty much anything can melt without burning.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        This is the correct answer. In a vaccum wood won’t burn for instance. It will melt, and even sublimate.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      An egg is already liquid, so it can’t be molten. It’s the same way you can’t melt water.