Investigation to Calculate the Water Potential of Potato Tissue.

... Investigation to Calculate the Water Potential of Potato Tissue As part of the investigation to determine the water potential of potato tissue in varying concentrations of sucrose a simple procedure was followed. Firstly, 25cm³ of sucrose solution was placed in each boiling tube. In each of the five boiling tubes, there were different concentrations of the sucrose solution containing either from the following of molar solutions: 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1.0M. Each boiling tube was labelled with its particular concentration of sucrose. Then the same cork borer was used to prepare 5 cylinders of potato, which had been cut to the same length of 4cm to minimise the difference in mass between the potato chips for greatest accuracy and fairness. In turn, each cylinder was weighed and placed into the boiling tube and to make sure which potato tissue went in what boiling tube we recorded the masses of the cylinders next to which

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