EDN164 Figure 15

Figure 15. Chicken egg in 500 ml of water with no salt (left), 50 g salt (10% salt solution; middle), and 100 g (20% salt solution;right).  Note that the egg sank with no salt, floated with 50 g salt, and floated a little higher in the water with 100g salt. A 10% salt concentration was the minimum amount it took for three chicken eggs and a duck egg to float. Corresponding specific gravity values were 1.000 for no salt and 1.071 for 10% salt solution (the measuring device [refractometer] used could not measure higher than 10% salt concentrations). Source: Tim Motis