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Does entropy increase or decrease when egg is boiled?

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When an egg is boiled, there is an increase in entropy although apparently it should decrease as after boiling egg becomes solid. This is because of the fact that on boiling, the proteins in the egg are denatured which breaks hydrogen bonding in them. This changes their helical structure into randomly coiled structure and hence, entropy gets increased.

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