What will happen if a de-shelled egg is kept in a concentrated salt solution for 5 minutes?

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The egg shrinks because water passes out from the egg into salt solution. The salt solution being more concentrated than the inside of the egg (hypertonic). As a result of which osmosis takes place.

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