Growing and Shrinking Egg. Bigger or smaller, these eggs use chemistry and permeability to expand and contract. The Shrinking Egg. Materials: 2 Ziploc sandwich bags clear corn syrup raw, shell-less egg (dissolve the shell by soaking the egg in vinegar for 48 hours before the. Eggmosis – Osmosis with Eggs. Posted by Angie on June 21. The egg in corn syrup will shrink. This observation seems to confirm Andrew’s hypotheses from. Dissolve the eggshell—without breaking the membrane that contains the egg. Then use your naked egg to experiment with. shrinking egg experiment. Home Link Ups Science Fun Thursday, March 8, 2012 The Shrinking Egg This is the 2nd experiment in a 3 part. (EGG LAB) Purpose | Hypothesis | Prediction | Materials. The egg no longer had bubbles on its surface. because the membrane does not shrink). Fun science experiment, using eggs top investigate Osmosis. Science Sparks, making science fun for kids. The Shrinking Egg. The Action: The. The experiment will show how to get an egg into a bottle that has an opening smaller than the diameter of the egg and not. Yesterday's post explained how to make a rubberized egg. Today, I will explain how to shrink an egg. This also demonstrates osmosis. How does water and solution effect an egg?. Hypothesis 1 chicken egg vinegar. Our group believed that the egg would shrink in the syrup and it would swell in.