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where does the water present inside the egg goes after boiling and instead of that we got a white colour soft surface over yolk?

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When egg is boiled, tertiary structure of proteins change, the globular proteins are converted to fibrous proteins a process called as coagulation.

Water present in egg gets trapped into this fibrous structure of the proteins.


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