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An experiment was set up as shown below

      

An experiment was set up as shown below
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The set up was left for 30 minutes.
a) State the expected results.
b) Explain your answer in (a) above

  

Answers


John
a) Visking tubing will become swollen/ bigger or increased in size

b) Sucrose solution is hypertonic compared to the water in the beaker (or water is hypotonic compared to sucrose in the beaker). Water moves from the beaker into visking tubing by osmosis through semi permeable visking tubing, making Visking tubing swell or increased in size.
johnmulu answered the question on April 28, 2017 at 13:54


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