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Discover what effect water with different NaCl concentrations have on potatoes, and find out whether high salt content in water has a better, worse, or the same effect on potatoes in comparison to lower molarity water (less salt).
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THE SCENARIO Freak weather conditions and a particularly high tide resulted in land above the Thames Barrier being flooded with estuarine waters (these have a high salt content relative to rain water). The Port of London authority have received a writ from a farmer. He claims that their failure to close the Thames Barrier has resulted in damage to his potato crop: the potatoes became soft and spongy and were no longer fit for human consumption. AIM To discover what effect water with different NaCl concentrations have on potatoes, and find out whether high salt content in water has a better, worse, or the same effect on potatoes in comparison to lower molarity water (less salt). The point of this is to investigate the farmers claim and discover whether he has a strong case. I will be investigating using six different water molarities: 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON OSMOSIS Osmosis...
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