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This is because of the process of osmosis. When an animal cell is placed in concentrated salt solution (of lower water potential than the animal cell/ hypertonic relative to the cell), water molecules will leave the cell and move into the salt solution to achieve equilibrium of water potential. This causes the animal cell to decrease in size and shrink. Spikes appear around the cell, and the cell is said to be crenated.

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