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Investigation to see how the Concentration of a Sugar Solution affects Osmosis in a Potato Chip.
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Investigation to see how the Concentration of a Sugar Solution affects Osmosis in a Potato Chip Scientific Knowledge Osmosis is a special type of diffusion. Osmosis is normally referred to the passage of water from a region of high water concentration through a semi - permeable membrane to a region of lower water concentration. Solutions are normally passed through a partially permeable membrane in order to even out solutions and the process called osmosis does this. Semi-permeable membranes are very thin layers of material, which allow some things to pass through them but prevent other things from passing through. This is said to be partially permeable. The molecules that it allows to pass is due to the molecular size of that molecule, for example sugar molecules are too large to pass through the partially permeable membrane but on the other hand molecules such as water are small enough to diffuse through...
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