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What will happen if a red blood cell is placed in sodium chloride solution?
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∙ 15y ago
Provided the concentration of salt is higher than the salt concentration in the red blood cell, the red blood cell, through the process of osmosis and the principal of diffusion, will shrink, as water flows from within the red blood cell to the solution.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 15y agoIt depends on the strength of the salt solution!
If the sodium chloride solution is weaker than the total strength of all the solutes (dissolved substances) in the cytoplasm of the red cell, then water will be attracted by osmosis into the cytoplasm. The cell, being an animal cell, has no wall, and will explode.
If the strength (osmotic pressure, OP) of the salt = the OP of the cell, there will be no net movement of water, and you will see no change under a microscope.
If the salt solution is stronger than the cytoplasm, water will leave the cell, which will shrivel.
At any time, and for any combination of solutions, the weaker solution is said to be hypotonic, the stronger hypertonic, and two the same are called isotonic.
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∙ 12y agoThe red blood cells would shrivel up. The fluids inside the cell would flood out and try to balance the level of salt concentration out side of the cells permeable membrane. ( called osmosis- the process is also refered to crenation once its shriveled up. )
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∙ 13y agoIt would shrivel up like a prune, loose most of its cytoplasm, and die.
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∙ 11y agoWiki User
∙ 15y agoit would shrivel up
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∙ 11y agonothing really
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∙ 11y agoit makes more white blood cells
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How do make a hypotonic solution an isotonic solution?
by addition of osmotic agents like : glucose, mannitol or addition of electrolytes like : sodium chloride
0.9 sodium chloride solution is isotonic with extacellular and intracellular fluid what does isotonic mean?
Isotonic means that the fluid has the same osmolarity as blood plasma - in the case of 0.9% sodium chloride, it means that this fluid has the same concentration of salt as blood plasma has.
An isotonic solution for human red blood cells is a?
An isotonic solution for human red blood cells is .85% sodium chloride. When the osmotic pressure is the same outside the cells and inside the cells, the solution is isotonic.
What is the botanical name of salt?
there won't be any botanical name for common salt as it is related to chemistry, and it would only have a chemical name-sodium chloride
The contrast of solute and solvent?
Solute is the substance dissolved in a solvent.For example, for a sodium chloride (cooking salt) solution the water is the solvent and the salt the solute.
Would a light bulb light up when placed in an aqueous solution of sodium chloride but not solid sodium chloride?
Yes
What will happen when sodium chloride is added to solution of weak acid?
The sodium chloride will dissolve as it does in ordinary water.
What can happen if you individual sodium and chloride ions when the water in a saltwater solution evaporates?
Sodium chloride remain as a crystalline residue.
Sodium chloride is mixed with water?
When NaCl is placed in water, the sodium and chlorine dissociate, giving you ions of chlorine which are negatively charged, and sodium ions which are positively charged. There is no reaction when sodium chloride is placed in water.
What forms an electrolyte solution?
Salt in water is sodium. Ringer's lactate solution (sodium lactate solution and Hartmann's solution), is a mix of sodium chloride, sodium lactate, potassium chloride, and calcium chloride in water. Sodium Chloride is a mix of sodium and chloride.
What is sodium chloride solution?
This solution contain a specified concentration of sodium chloride.
When sodium chloride is dissolved in water the solution is homogeneous?
The sodium chloride solution of sodium chloride in water is homogeneous.
What is sodium chloride on the pH scale?
The water solution of sodium chloride is neutral.
Is NaCl a colloid solution?
Yes, sodium chloride is very soluble in water.
Speration method for sodium chloride solution and sodium chloride?
if u have sodium chloride solution just heat it..water will get evaporated leaving only sodium chloride
What is the difference between solid sodium chloride and a 5 of solution of a sodium chloride?
The solution is a liquid containing dissociated sodium chloride.
What will happen if sodium chloride is placed in water?
You already know this! Because the main component of table salt is sodium chloride and table salt dissolves in water.
