By 
Eleanor Nelsen
 | 
TED-Ed Original

How to unboil an egg

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. [Directed by Província Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].

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