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what would you observe after 5mins when you drop a deshelled raw egg in pure water. give reason

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When you drop a deshelled raw egg in pure water, the pure water will move into the cell by the process of endosmosis and the cell will swell up because pure water is hypotonic solution (solution having lesser concentration of solutes) as compared to the egg.


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