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Where does the water present in the egg go after boiling the egg?

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When an egg is boiled, the soluble globular protein albumin present in the egg white first undergoes denaturation and then coagulation to give fibrous protein. The water present in the egg gets attached to the fibrous protein molecules through hydrogen bonds.
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