How can osmosis be used in real life?

Answer 1

Osmosis is the movement of water into or out of cells.

Here is a video which discusses how osmosis can add water to the inside of a cell, or can other times take water away from the cell.

Here is a video of a lab conducted to test osmosis in eggs placed into different solutions. You can try this at home!

Video from: Noel Pauller

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Answer 2

Eli Ayoub

Osmosis is used in real life in various ways, including in biological systems such as cells, in agriculture for plant hydration, in water treatment processes, and in food preservation techniques like pickling.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.