When a potato slice/piece is placed in pure water, it gains mass and appears to be blown up. This is because the water is travelling into the potato because it has a lower concentration of water inside it.
If a potato slice is placed in tap water, the potato will absorb water through the process of osmosis. This causes the potato cells to swell and the slice to increase in size. The potato slice may also become softer due to the increased water content.
It gets softer.
sprouts will grow from the potato tubule and grow more potatoes..... weird huh?
the water absorbed by the potato slice through osmosis causes its cells to swell and become turgid, increasing the rigidity of the slice. This process, known as turgor pressure, gives plants and plant-based foods their structure when they absorb water.
When a carrot slice is placed in tap water, it absorbs the water through a process called osmosis. The water moves into the carrot cells, causing them to become turgid and swell, making the carrot slice stiff. This happens because the water pressure inside the cells increases, providing structural support to the carrot slice.
no.it contains starch...
Osmosis is the movement of water molecules across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. When a potato slice is saturated with water, it means that the cells in the potato have absorbed as much water as they can hold. In this state, osmosis will not have a significant effect on the potato slice because there is no concentration gradient for water to move across the membrane.
Well, honey, water molecules would move from an area of high water concentration to an area of low water concentration, so they would move into the potato slice to try to balance things out. It's called osmosis, darling. So, basically, the water would go into the potato, making it all plump and juicy.
Beacause when you put the slice of potato in water osmosis takes place since concentration of water is lower then the concentration of the potato and water moves from ow concentration to high concentration so the water will move into the potato and the potato will become ridgid, But if you put salty water the salty water has a higher concentration then the potato so water will move out of the potato and the potato becomes soft.
you have to slice it first then it will shrink
~When you put salt in potato and then put it in the water cup, there is low water concentration in potato and more concentration in the cup of water. Due to this concentration gradient water moves from the cup into the potato by osmosis.
In osmosis, water will move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. In potato A, if placed in a hypertonic solution (higher solute concentration), water will move out of the potato causing it to shrink (plasmolysis). In potato B, if placed in a hypotonic solution (lower solute concentration), water will move into the potato causing it to swell (turgor pressure).