Apologia General Science Experiment 11.1 Minerals In Bone
This experiment was similar to the one we did a few months ago--where we put a limestone in a glass of vinegar and the vinegar ate the lime from the stone. In this experiment the vinegar is eating the calcium/minerals and leaving the collagen behind. The stiff bone will turn into a flexible/bendable bone.
*Update: wow, is the bone like a rubber-band now! It is completely bendy and rubbery.
We had to specially buy a whole chicken to get a wishbone, to do the experiment how it was specified. Easy experiment to do, once you have the bone!
After a week in the vinegar, the bone went all rubbery!
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We did that experiment and had the same problem...we needed that bone!
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