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Cracking Eggs 101

 

cience has finally come up with an explanation for what comes naturally to most home cooks: Eggs crack best around their equators, says MIT mechanical engineer Pedro Reis, because of their geometry. He and a young colleague, Arnaud Lazarus, have just published a paper in
Physical Review Letters
demonstrating a link between an eggshell’s geometry (it belongs to a class of shapes known as ovoids) and a mechanical property called
rigidity
—the quality that, along with strength, determines how much force an object can withstand before it cracks.

 

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