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. What Factors Affect Osmosis in Potato Cylinders? The aim of this experiment is to investigate the volume of sucrose solution and the weight and volume of other variables which affect osmosis in potato cylinders. In this experiment I will weigh and blot rings of potato and test them in different concentrations of sucrose solution. I hope to find sufficient results as to investigate this. In this experiment I will be investigating, and putting to test, the theory of osmosis. The scientific theory of osmosis is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane into a more concentrated solution of sucrose. Because the more concentrated solution contains a lower concentration of water molecules, the water flows by diffusion to dilute it until concentrations of solvent are equal on both sides of the membrane. In simple terms, it may also be thought of as the passage of water molecules from a low solution...

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