why eggs liquid on heating changes to solid?

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And egg is made up of proteins ,so when an egg is boiled at high temperature,entropy of it's molecule increases .This increase in entropy causes denaturation of protein present in eggs and results in coagulation of proteins. Thus it gets solidified.

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