The veins of the celery turn the color of the dye. It's very cool when you slice it open.
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Adhesion and Cohesion
Saltwater (a hypertonic solution) with the celery cells (a hypotonic solution) causes a concentration gradient where the water from the celery will escape into the hypertonic solution, shrinking the celery in a process known as plasmolysis.
Most likely the solution is water and salt. The salt in the water causes the celery to pull water out of itself to try and even out the salt to water concentration. This causes the celery to wilt.
Salt helps by making the dye solution stick to the cloth fibers.
Red and Yellow dye.
because your mum has lots of celery and sugar
The food color is absorbed by the celery from its roots, whatever color you put in the water affects the color of the celery.
Because of something called capillary action. Capillary action is the tendency of water to move upward in a capillary or thin tube, it's the same reason as to why when placed in a solution of water and red dye, the celery will turn red as well. The action causes the celery to absorb the salt water into it thouroghly and thus, it wilts.
If you wish to retrieve the water but not the dye, add a stick of celery or two into the mixture and leave for a while. The dye will penetrate the celery, changing the colour of it, while leaving most (98%) of the water. This is called osmosis. If you want to keep the dye but not the water, simply VERY slowly heat the mixture so that the water evaporates. Or, if you're not in a rush, leave in on a windowsill for a few hours or days for the sun to evaporate the water naturally. Eventually you'll be left with the dye. This is called evaporation.
hypotonic
Distilled water is hypotonic, which makes the celery fresher. NaCl solution is hypertonic to the celery cells making them limp.