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Q: When water is lost but electrolytes are retained what happens?
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Which hydrates you more water or Gatorade?

When you are an athlete you lose chloride, sodium, and potassium due to sweating. Gatorade helps hydrate you and replace the electrolytes that are lost. Water does not replace your lost electrolytes. If you drink to much water it disturbs your electrolyte balance.


Is powerade good for you and why?

Yes. It replenishes 4 electrolytes lost in sweat.


Do salts when heated lost its electrolytes?

They remain electrolytes until they are not thermally decomposed in other compounds.


Is it good for a runner to drink electrolytes?

yes, because many electrolytes are lost while sweating. stay away from sugar-heavy drinks though; diluted gatorade with 50% water works well.


where does osmosis move water from when water is lost but electrolytes are retained?

Osmosis moves a solvent (eg water) to balance the concentrations of solute either side of a semipermeable membrane. The solvent is not lost.If the concentration of a solution is higher on one side of the membrane than the other, then the water moves across the membrane from the less concentrated side to the more concentrated side to dilute it until the concentrations on either side are equal..


How do you refill lost blood?

To refill lost blood you should drink PLENTY of water as well as electrolytes/salts, if you have lost a SIGNIFICANT amount of blood (2+ pints) you should absolutely go to the Hospital.


What happens if a cell has lost water?

it dies


Do sports drinks contain alcohol?

They do not, as sports drinks are designed to replenish the water electrolytes that a person has lost, while alcohol does the exact opposite - make you lose water.


Where are excess fluids and electrolytes lost?

Depending on the direction of the question as a whole, fluids and electrolytes are usually lost due to a relevant sickness such as vomiting or diarrhoea. This causes dehydration and the body begins to compensate by inhibiting the process of excretion of urine by the bowels, this retaining more water to prevent severe dehydration


Where are excess fluids electrolytes lost?

Depending on the direction of the question as a whole, fluids and electrolytes are usually lost due to a relevant sickness such as vomiting or diarrhoea. This causes dehydration and the body begins to compensate by inhibiting the process of excretion of urine by the bowels, this retaining more water to prevent severe dehydration


Which Step of technological design is represented by the situation scientists at a university develop a drink that replaces lost electrolytes better than water?

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What happens to the energy that is lost when water freezes?

It goes to the environment.