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Why does salt make your body swell?
salt water helps to remove water through a property of osmosis. this is movement of water molecules from a region of their higher concentration to a region of their lower concentration across a semipermeable membrane. since the swelling contains more water a concentrated salt solution on the other side will allow the water molecules from the swelling to move across the skin or semipermeable membrane into the high salt region through osmosis and thus help reduce swelling.
How does drinking salt water affect your cell membrane?
i think you mean to ask what effect salt water has on a cell. if you were to introduce a cell into an environment that has a higher salt concentration that its own internal concentration, you would create a concentration gradient (difference). water would diffuse across the cells membrane OUT of the cell and into the external environment in a process called osmosis, in an attempt to even out the differences in concentration by diluting the outside saltier environment. the result would be a shrivelled more "dehydrated" or hypertonic cell.
What happens to the cells when the salt water is flushed out with distilled water?
osmosis ocurs and water moves into the cell, expanding the membrane.
Which process works by applying pressurized water against a semipermeable membrane that traps salt and other minerals?
A+ reverse osmosis
What if a semipermeable membrane has a 2 percent salt solution on one side a 15 percent salt solutionWhat will mostly occur?
Osmosis of water from a low concentration of salt to a high concentration
How could salt be salt from the water solution?
Evaporate the water. Pass the water through a reverse osmosis membrane.
Is the cell membrane permeable in animal cells?
I assume you mean semi-permerable membrane that is permeable to the solution (water) but not the solute (salt). Osmosis can only occur if the membrane does NOT allow salt to pass through. Osmosis is the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of low salt concentration to higher salt concentration.
How is osmosis related to water?
Osmosis is when water molecules pass through a membrane. For example, if there is more salt outside a cell then inside it, the process of osmosis transports water molecules outside the cell to equalize the concentration of salt. WordNet's definition: diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal
How can OSMOSIS be used to make pure water from saltwater?
By reversing osmosis and using pressure to push the pure water through the semipermeable membrane, leaving concentrated salt brine behind.
When a red blood cell is placed in a hypertonic solution is water the only thing diffusing or will the salt diffuse as well in an attempt to achieve equilibrium?
Just the water moves across the cell membrane in a process called osmosis
Osmosis is a diffusion process that moves through the membrane from higher to lower concentration. molecules salt water nutrients?
Switch the word "solvent" to "water" and you have the best definition possible.
Are the salt particles able to cross the membrane?
If you are referring to osmosis, the salt doesn't cross the membrane, water does. Water will move into the salt water to attempt to dilute it to create homeostatsis, or equal concentrations on each side of the membrane.
Why does salt make your body swell?
salt water helps to remove water through a property of osmosis. this is movement of water molecules from a region of their higher concentration to a region of their lower concentration across a semipermeable membrane. since the swelling contains more water a concentrated salt solution on the other side will allow the water molecules from the swelling to move across the skin or semipermeable membrane into the high salt region through osmosis and thus help reduce swelling.
How does drinking salt water affect your cell membrane?
i think you mean to ask what effect salt water has on a cell. if you were to introduce a cell into an environment that has a higher salt concentration that its own internal concentration, you would create a concentration gradient (difference). water would diffuse across the cells membrane OUT of the cell and into the external environment in a process called osmosis, in an attempt to even out the differences in concentration by diluting the outside saltier environment. the result would be a shrivelled more "dehydrated" or hypertonic cell.
Where does the salt initially go in a desalination plant and how is it removed from the desalinator?
Salt water is pumped through a very fine membrane which does not allow the salt to pass through (osmosis). Only part of the water is "desalinated". The rest, with all the salt, is usually pumped back into the ocean, at some distance away from the plant.
How does water leave a cell when placed in salt water?
osmosis, which is diffusion of water across a membrane from an area with lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration to equalize the concentration on both sides of the membrane.
What removes the salt from seawater to make it drinkable?
Their are several ways, mostly reverse osmosis or flash vaperation. In reverse osmosis, water goes through a membrane that salt cannot through the use of pressure.<br><br>In flash vaperazation the water is super heated and turned to steam, leaving brine behind. The steam is cooled into water again.
