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molecules go with the concentration gradient, depending if the cell is hypotonic or hypertonic (research that.)
AnswerBecause the molecules of solute are mutually repelled but are attracted to the molecules of the solvent. They therefore tend to spread throughout the solvent until they are evenly distributed.Actual AnswerMolecules diffuse because they are always randomly moving around (brownian motion). The molecules have no real sense of high or low concentration. It's their random movement that make it seem like they go from high to low concentration.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe movement of a substance from a high concentration to a lower one. Example: If we put a large amount of salt into a glass of water, initially the concentration of salt is high in the bottom of the glass. However, as it sits the salt "diffuses" throughout the glass the concentration equalizes moving from the high concentration of salt to the lower concentration. The purpose of movement is to reach equilibrium of concentration. The process is the same for a cellular membrane. Substances want to move from higher concentrations to lower ones.
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What kinds of molecules freely diffuse across a semipermeable membrane?
Water molecules freely diffuse across a semipermeable membrane.
Why do sugar molecules not diffuse through a plant cell membrane?
The membrane is semi-permeable. Sugar molecules are too large to diffuse through.
What type of compound would easily diffuse into the cell?
A hydrophobic molecules (such as a steroid molecule) can easily diffuse into the cell
What things diffuse into?
The molecules of food and oxygen diffuse into cells. oh and btfw co2 and waste chemicals diffuse ut of cells. im in year 3
When the concentration of free water molecules is higher outside a cell than inside the cell water will diffuse?
In this situation there will be endo-osmosis. The water molecules will diffuse from outside to inside cell.
What type of molecules diffuse?
All types of molecules
How do you use diffuse in sentence?
Oxygen molecules diffuse across the membrane.
Glucose is a molecule that can move across the cell membrane if the concentration of glucose is high or inside the cell than outside the cell then what will happen by the process of diffusion?
glucose molecules will diffuse out of the cell. apex
What kinds of molecules freely diffuse across a semipermeable membrane?
Water molecules freely diffuse across a semipermeable membrane.
Do molecules diffuse during equilibrium?
No.
What molecules diffuse out of a leaf?
Glucose
Why do sugar molecules not diffuse through a plant cell membrane?
The membrane is semi-permeable. Sugar molecules are too large to diffuse through.
Do all liquids diffuse the same way?
no because different molecules have different sizes. Smaller molecules will diffuse faster than larger molecules.
What determines how molecules are distributed in diffusion?
The concentration gradient is what causes molecules to diffuse.
How do molecules diffuse across membranes?
the reach equilibrium
What type of compound would easily diffuse into the cell?
A hydrophobic molecules (such as a steroid molecule) can easily diffuse into the cell
What things diffuse into?
The molecules of food and oxygen diffuse into cells. oh and btfw co2 and waste chemicals diffuse ut of cells. im in year 3
