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Osmosis in Selectively Permeable Membrane

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Raisins shrink in sugar solution give reason

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A raisin, when put in a sugar solution (or any other concentrated solution), loses water by exosmosis and consequently shrinks. This happens due to osmosis.
Osmosis is the passage of water from a region of high water concentration to a region of lower water concentration.

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