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The Concentration Rate Of Osmosis

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Table 1, shows the average change in mass and average rate of osmosis of the egg after it had been soaking for ten minutes in the distilled water, 1%, 2%, 5% and 10% Sodium Chloride solutions. The table also shows the SEM for each of the averages. All of the averages show that as the salt concentration increases from 0% to 2%, the rate of change in mass decreases. From the 5% salt concentration to 10%, the rate of change in mass begins to increase. This indicates that somewhere between 2% and 5%, an isotonic environment was reached. This is all shown in the results, as the average rate of osmosis in the egg after being submerged in the distilled water is 0.105 g/min, the average rate of osmosis after being submerged in the 1% solution is …show more content…

This indicates that every groups data was somewhat accurate and errors were minimal.

In figure five, the r2 value was calculated, which shows how closely the data matches the trendline given by the equation. The closer the r2value is to one, the closer the polynomial trendline matches the specific equation. In figure five, the r2value is 0.99, which means that the regression line accounts for 99% of the data. This means that one could be extremely confident that the regression line is an accurate representation of the average of the collated result. The equation of the line in figure five was also calculated, which was y=-0.0005x3+0.0083x2-0.0538x +0.1039. This polynomial equation allows for the point on the graph at which the internal solute reaches equal osmotic pressure to be calculated. Once this equation was plugged into the graphing application of a calculator and the point of inflection was found, the point of osmotic pressure was found, which is 5.53%. This indicates that the intracellular concentration of the egg is 5.53% and therefore once this percentage is reached in the extracellular environment, there is an isotonic environment. This explains as to why the egg starts losing mass around the concentration mark of 5%.

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The results that were obtained support the hypothesis that as the extracellular salt concentration

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