An unripe mango placed in a concentrated salt solution to prepare pickle, shrivels because:

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Solution

It loses water due to osmosis. Due to osmosis, solvent molecules moves from low concentration side to high concentration side. Hence, a raw mango placed in concentrated salt solution loses water via osmosis and shrivel into pickle.

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