That furnishes the egg with enough water to carry out the reactions of embryo development.

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The egg creams (soda water mixed with chocolate or vanilla syrup and milk) and cherry-lime rickeys (lime juice and maraschino cherries mixed with lemon-lime soda) are not to be missed here.

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Soon after spawning, the egg membranes undergo chemical reactions that seal the pores that let water into or out of the egg.

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"I think I had, in the past couple of days prior to that, just an egg and a glass of water -- this is the extreme measures we have to go to in order to cut weight for our category, " she said.

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What is needed is an egg with an impenetrable barrier that contains water at the right salt concentration for life.

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It's a 30-foot-long, 4-foot-deep, fully automated stainless steel tub that produces a pasteurized egg by bathing it for about an hour in water that is precisely controlled to between 128 and 150 degrees (the exact temperature is secret)--hot enough to kill salmonella and other dangerous microbes without cooking the egg, (see sidebar).

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Egg on your face comes off with a little soap and warm water.

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Ideally, when a chick becomes a candidate to become an egg-laying hen, it is put in a clean environment with clean water and feed, he said.

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Pushing other essential infrastructure, such as clean drinking water, sewer systems and mass transportation, gets caught in a similar chicken-and-egg syndrome as the residents desperately want to join the grid but gatos of all kinds undermine the economics of the arrangement.

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