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A red blood cell placed in distilled water will swell and burst due to the diffusion of?
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A red blood cell placed in distilled water will swell and burst due to the diffusion of what?
3. water from the blood cell into its environment
Is a red blood cell placed in distilled water will swell and burst a chemical or physical change?
When a red blood cell is placed in distilled water it will swell and burst. This is a physical change.
What happens to red blood cells when they are placed in distilled water?
because of osmosis it would get fatter and fatter with water till it burst. aww.
What happen if the white blood cell is put in distilled water?
If they are centrifuged and distilled water is added, they will burst immediately
Why don't potato cells swell and burst when placed in distilled water?
Potatos are plants and they have cell walls.
Why not inject distilled water into arm?
This will increase the water potential of the blood, and cause your blood cells to burst due to osmosis.
Is staining what you call it if you diluted a blood sample with distilled water and the red blood cells burst?
You can certainly expect the blood cells to stain the water as their cell membranes rupture from being in a hypotonic solution. The term that describes this is "To lyse". Blood cells lyse in distilled water.
Why would red blood cells burst if you placed them in pure water?
because red blood cells are blood and if they can disolve there for they will burt cause the blood has acid in it.
What happens when you put a red blood cell in concentrated salt solutions?
A red blood cell placed in a concentrated sugar solution will shrink and wrinkle. The red blood cell is hypotonic and the concentrated sugar solution is hypertonic. Water will rush out of the cell causing diffusion leading to the cell's shrinking.
What would happen if you put red blood cell in distilled water?
because of osmosis it would get fatter and fatter with water till it burst. aww.
Will A red blood cell placed in pure water will shrink?
A red blood cell placed in pure (distilled) water will explode because of osmosis.Substances naturally seek equilibrium through osmosis by going from areas of high concentration to low concentration, the concentration of H2O is much greater outside the cell than inside and as a result water will rush into the cell and burst the membrane.
What is haemolysing?
An example would be when red blood cells burst because they have been placed in a solution that has a lower concentration of salts than blood plasma.
