2012年2月1日星期三

How does osmosis explain the fact that a watery syrup forms when you put sugar on a strawberry?

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How does osmosis explain the fact that a watery syrup forms when you put sugar on a strawberry?
In osmosis... water moves across a membrane from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration... trying to make both sides of the membrane equal concentrations of solute and water.



The inside of the strawberry has the low solute (low sugar content/ lots of water) concentration. The outside of the strawberry has the high solute concentration (lots of sugar/hardly any water). The water then moves across the membrane (the strawberry skin) to try to equalize both sides' concentration of sugar/water. The water moves from low concentration (inside the strawberry) to high concentration (outside the strawberry). Therefore, the water that used to be inside the strawberry, moves to outside the strawberry by osmosis through the skin %26amp; that water mixes with the sugar outside the strawberry and makes the watery syrup.
Reply:lower concentration to higher concentration! liquid goes where theres more stuff.
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