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Osmosis in Potato chips  

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Osmosis in Potato chips What am I going to investigate? I am going to investigate potato chips in different percent of concentrations of Sugar solution. I will increase and decrease the percentage of it to find out the difference in mass and length to see if in Sugar solution the potato chips become flaccid or turgid. What do I plan to do? 1. I took two average sized ground potatoes and checked that they were both healthy and hard. 2. using a white tile underneath I got a potato cutter and got some cylinder shaped potato chips out of it that were variable the size of 4cm on a white tile. 3. Using a knife and a ruler I made the potato chips 4 cm long. I had to be very careful whilst cutting the potato as the knife is exceptionally sharp. I then had10 chips to do 2 different readings. 4. Taking a test tube rack...

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