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In brief, state what happens when dry apricots are left for some time in pure water and later transferred to a sugar solution?


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Apricots:

  1. Apricots are fleshy fruits of the genus plum.
  2. If dry apricots are kept in water they will swell due to the incoming water by the process of endosmosis.
  3. Whereas if placed in a concentrated sugar solution, they lose water due to exosmosis.
  4. The osmosis process involves the movement of water across a permeable membrane from a high water potential to lower water potential.

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