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PRACTICAL: Investigating osmosis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What 9 pieces of apparatus do we need for this experiment? | 1. Potatoes 2. Cork borer 3. Knife 4. Sucrose solutions (from 0 Mol/dm3 to 1 mol/dm3) 5. Test tubes 6. Balance 7. Paper towels 8. Ruler 9. Test tube rack |
| What is different about each of the sucrose solutions we set up? | They are a range of concentrations |
| What do we use to cut 6 equally sized pieces of potato? | A knife, cork borer and a ruler |
| When do we weigh the potatoes? | Before they go in the solution and after they come out |
| How long should we leave the potatoes in the solution for? | 4 hours |
| Which potato will have the greatest increase in mass? Why? | The one in distilled water (lowest sucrose concentration) as it has the greatest concentration gradient between potato and solution |
| What are we changing in this experiment? | Concentration of sucrose solution |
| What 2 things are we controlling in this experiment? | 1. Volume of sucrose solution 2. Dimensions of potato |