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Water diffuses into a potato strip due to osmosis, which is the movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration. The potato cells contain a higher concentration of solutes compared to the surrounding water, causing water to enter the cells. This process leads to the swelling of the potato strip as it absorbs water, resulting in increased turgor pressure within the cells.
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When strip of potato was placed in water did it shrink?
When a strip of potato is placed in water, it typically does not shrink; instead, it may swell. This is due to osmosis, where water moves into the potato cells, causing them to become turgid. If the potato strip is placed in a hypertonic solution (like salt water), it would lose water and shrink.
What happens to potato strip in dilute water?
This depends on the concentration of the salt solution. If the water potential of the salt solution is greater (less concentrated) than the cell sap of the potato cells, water would move into the potato cells, increasing the size of the potato strip. If the water potential of the salt solution is lower (more concentrated) than the cell sap of the potato cells, water would move out of the potato cells in the salt solution, decreasing the size of the potato strip.
What happens when the potato strip is in salt solution?
Remember that the strip of potato is made of thousands of cells. When there is more salt outside the cells, water will leave. The strip will 'wilt' as the cell loses water and begins to shrivel up.
Potato strip soaked in the 10 percent NaCl bendable?
When a potato strip is soaked in a 10 percent NaCl solution, it undergoes osmosis, where water moves out of the potato cells due to the higher concentration of salt outside the cells. This causes the cells to lose water, leading to shrinkage and the potato strip becoming bendable.
Will the size of an unboiled strip of potato increase when placed in distilled water for 2 hours?
Yes, because the distilled water has higher water potential as compared the the strip potato, so water will enter the potato by osmosis, through a partially permeable membrane, causing it to increase in size (:
Why do potato's shrink when you put them in water mixed with sugar?
The water in the cells diffuse out into solution via simple osmosis
What happen to a raw potato kept in salt water?
If it was placed in a salty solution the potato strip would shrink because the outer solution has a high salt concentration so the water in the potato strip would get out through osmosis and would try to balance the solution
Why did water diffuse out of a potato in a test tube of Na Cl?
Water diffused out of the potato because of the high concentration of salt (NaCl) in the surrounding solution. This created a hypertonic environment, causing water to move out of the potato cells through osmosis in an attempt to balance the concentration of solutes inside and outside the cells.
What are effect of osmosis on potato strips?
This depends on the concentration of the salt solution. If the water potential of the salt solution is greater (less concentrated) than the cell sap of the potato cells, water would move into the potato cells, increasing the size of the potato strip. If the water potential of the salt solution is lower (more concentrated) than the cell sap of the potato cells, water would move out of the potato cells in the salt solution, decreasing the size of the potato strip.
Which salts does not diffuse in water?
Insoluble salts doesn't diffuse in water.
Does a larger surface area makes diffusion happen more quickly?
yes. Lets for example take a potato cube put in a jar of water. if the potato cube has a large surface area, then more of its surface will be exposed to water molecules, meaning that more can diffuse into it more quickly.
What causes oxygen from the water to diffuse into the blood?
the lungs causes oxygen from the water to diffuse into the blood
