How Osmosis Affects The Weight Of Potato Chips

Aim: To investigate how duration of soaking affects Osmosis in potato tissue. Background Scientific Information: In Osmosis is the movement of water from a place of high water concentration to a place of low water concentration through a partially permeable membrane. This osmosis movement will continue until the water potential on both sides of the ppm is balanced. When a potato chip is put in plain water, it will become larger, due to osmosis, as …

…throughout these 8minutes. Until it at last stops when no more osmosis can take place. If I were to repeat this experiment there are several tings I would take into account in order to obtain better results. It would not be fair to weigh the potato more often as removing and drying the chip so often would not allow osmosis to take place as efficiently. Instead I would do more repetitions to obtain more results.