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Saturday, 28 April 2007 Osmosis My investigation was on osmosis; the experiment that I planned was to find out the potato, which weighed the heaviest after being put into a beaker filled with a sugar solution and a beaker filled with water. This is my conclusion; before, the potato weighed 2.43 of sugar and 2.43 of water. After 24hours of the potato been in a sugar solution the results changed to be 1.73 of sugar, and 2.86 of water. I have drawn out a table of my results and the differences in weight. Solution 1 = 10 ml of sugar solution Solution 2 = 8.5 ml of sugar solution & 1.5 ml of water Solution 3 = 1.5 ml of sugar solution & 8.5 ml of water Solution 4 = 5 ml of sugar solution & 5 ml of water Solution 5 = 10 ml of water Solution Potato Weight Before Weight After Difference Difference (%) 1 1 2 3 .61 .61 .62 .36 .35 .41 -25 -26 -21 40.9 Loss 42.6 Loss 33.9 Loss 2 4 5 6 .59 .58 .62 .39 .42 .39 -20 -26 -23 33.9 Loss 44.8 Loss 37.1 Loss 3 7 8 9 .56 .56 .58 .67 .67 .64 11 11 6 19.6...

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