Edited by Sean Hickey, Travis Derouin, Krystle C., Jack Herrick
and 74 others It may seen impossible to get an egg into a
bottle, but with this article, you can amaze people and let them
wonder how you did it! - 1Get a glass bottle and a peeled, hard-
boiled egg. Make sure the bottle has no liquid inside and that
it is free of flammable substances. - 2Stand the glass bottle
upright with the opening skywards. - 3Carefully light three
matches. With extreme caution, drop them into the bottle. Wait a
second or two. - 4Quickly put the egg onto the bottle's opening,
wide end up. - 5Wait. After the matches go out, the egg will be
pulled into the bottle. Then, amaze your friends. - This trick
works because when the matches burn, they heat up the air inside
the bottle and release steam (water) as a part of the combustion
reaction. This process causes the air inside the bottle to
expand, forcing some out of the bottle. Once the egg seals the
top of the bottle, the matches quickly run out of oxygen and go
out. As the air