the lettuce will begin to wilt do to the salt drying up the lettuce.
The cells of lettuce leaf will be plasmolyzed due to exo osmosis.
The cell would lose water and the membrane would collapse.
Because the salt quickly causes dehydration.
it is to do with the water potential
It begins to wilt.
Yes, but it is without any importance.
When you put a leaf in salt water, the leaf will start to turn brown in a few days. The leaf will start to turn brown in a mater of days.
You get a salt solution.
it spread out
Salt will crystalize out.
the crystallized salt is left behind
I have tried that experiment before. The salt just sits on top of the water.