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"Experiment to investigate the Process and effect of concentration of Osmosis" Background knowledge Through previous experiments, and notes we've learnt that Osmosis is a process, which uses the method of diffusion to transfer water molecules from a low to high concentration. An example of this is in the "Experiment to investigate Osmosis". When we placed a sucrose solution into a beaker of water. The sucrose was held in visking tubing that acted as a partially permeable membrane. As we predicted, it allowed water molecules in, and so became turgid and heavier than before the experiment, but the sucrose molecules, were too large to pass the membrane, so the water remained the same. Prediction By using my background information, (which is solely based on previous class notes), I think that when the potato strip is placed in the sugar solution then it will be lighter when taken out after approximately 30 minutes, because no...

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