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If the red blood cell [that has low concentration of solute (5%)] is placed in a solution with a higher concentration of solute(20%) , water moves out of the red blood cell and becomes a smaller cell by a process called osmosis.
Osmosis process is the moving of the solvent from a solution with low concentration of solute to a solution with higher concentration of solute.
Red blood cell will shrink.
Explanation:
Now let's check out how it will happen:
The glass of water has
Thus, water molecules from the cytoplasm of red blood cell where they are in higher concentration will move to the solution in the glass where they are in lower concentration, comparatively, by crossing the semi-permeable membrane of the cell. This movement of
Now as the red blood cell is losing water, it will shrink. And water molecules will keep on moving by osmosis until the equilibrium is achieved.
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