Osmosis Lab Report

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1. The steeper the graph gets, faster is the change in rate. So, from the graph we can see that the rate is fastest for 0.2M because it has a greater steep, so higher rate of osmosis took place when 0.2M was placed in the solvent. On the other hand, we see a rise for 0.6M this means that the rate of osmosis was very low when 0.6M of sucrose was placed in diH2O.
2. 0.6M has the greatest slope. Its equation was 0.128x + 9.62 which was greater compared to other values. The smallest was for 0.0M where we got the equation as 0.005x + 9.88 which is the smallest compared to other values. m is the change in mass over time therefore we can see greater change for 0.6M whereas smaller change for 0.0M. This is because osmosis was more favorable for 0.6M

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