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How are cells in sodium chloride different from distilled water?
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What inorganic substance is present in the greatest quantity inside animal cells A protein B oxygen C sodium chloride D water?
water
How do you use chlorine everyday?
Chlorine gas in used in water-treatment works and commercial swimming-pools, to disinfect the filtered water, at concentrations of 2ppm for potable water, 2-4ppm for swimming pools. Its compounds are most commonly found in household bleach, zinc-chloride primary cells (in batteries) and as table salt: sodium hypochlorate (or ~ite?), ammonium chloride and sodium chloride respectively.
Does sodium make you thirsty?
The salt makes a fluid around your body cell that is saltier than the fluid your body cell already has. The saltier fluid acts like a magnet and takes the water from the cells. Happy thanksgiving :)
What minerals is the major positively charged ion inside body cells?
sodium
What does distilled water do to people?
Distilled water hydrates people when taken internally and also rinses and may cool people when used externally. Distilled water is just a fancy way of saying "pure" or "almost pure" water. It is (for the most part) just H2O while tap, river, sea, lake, etc. water contains many other substances.
What is Lactated Ringer's?
Saline solution. A solution containing sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chloride, and sodium lactate in distilled water, used as a topical treatment for wounds and burns. It is also used to culture animal cells.
Do cells make sodium chloride as a waste product?
Not
How does body cells readily differentiate between sodium chloride and potassium chloride?
Sodium chloride has got electron configuration of 2,8,1. Potassium chloride has got electron configuration of 2,8,8,1. They behave identically in almost all the chemical reactions. But then you have potassium chloride molecule inside the cell. You need to have sodium chloride molecules out side the body cell to make them survive. If you get intravenous injection of sodium chloride, nothing will happen to you. If you give intravenous injection of potassium chloride, you will die instantly. How body cells recognize the difference between sodium chloride and potassium chloride in no time is the big question mark.
How does NaCl hold water in human cells?
Because sodium chloride is very hydrophile.
Where is chlorine located in body?
Chlorine is very active element. It readily combine with any organic matter. So you do not find free chlorine in your body. You find the chlorine as sodium chloride out side the cells. You find double amount of chlorine in, potassium chloride, that is present inside the cells.
How does salt sanitize?
The sodium and chloride make cells unable to function. This kills bacteria, which are much less able to handle the effects, but not body cells that can.
Does salt sanitize?
The sodium and chloride make cells unable to function. This kills bacteria, which are much less able to handle the effects, but not body cells that can.
What two major electrolytes outside your cells and in your blood?
There aren't only 2 important electrolytes in the body/cell, but at least 7: Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, Magnesium, Calcium, Hydrogen Phosphate, and Hydrogen Carbonate.
Is it bad to use an IV that contains only plain water?
A: Yes. Inserting plain water into an IV can kill a patient. The solution must be made of saline, an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water. If the IV is made of plain water, then it will be hypotonic to blood cells, causing them to burst.
What will happen to blood cells place in the stailed water?
Your question is confusing, did you mean "distilled" water? Your body & cells live and function not in a pure water environment, but water with several electrolytes in specific concentrations: sodium, potassium, calcium, chloride and several others. If you placed red blood cells into pure water (distilled water) that did not have any of the electrolytes mentioned above, the distilled water would enter the blood cells through the process of osmosis. The basic idea of osmosis is that if there is a chemical gradient and a permeable membrane separating this gradient, there will be a transfer of water trying to reach an equillibrium. The solution in your red blood cells would be hyperosmotic compared to the distilled water. The cell membranes are semi-permeable, and would allow some of the distilled water to enter the cell, trying to balance the osmolarity. The effect would be that the red blood cells would swell with distilled water and likely burst--like an over-filled water balloon. If enough red blood cells were to pop, they could release enough electrolytes into the distilled water to keep other red blood cells from swelling and popping.
What is the most abundant anion in extracellular fluid?
Extracellular fluid refers to all body fluid outside of cells. The most abundant anion in the extracellular fluid is chloride (Cl-).
Why do we use NaCl in a plasmolysis of onion?
Adding sodium chloride the osmotic pressure in the cells is modified and water is expelled; the observation of cells without water is more adequate.
