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what happens when we put onion peel in salt water

As salt water is hypertonic solution, exosmosis (movement of water out of the cell) will take place in the cells, causing cell membrane to shrink away from the cell wall. This is called plasmolysis.

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salt water is hypertonic so it will the onion cells will lose water as the water will go from the reigon of higher concentration to reigon of lower concentration (uncertain)

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The onion peel will shrink due to osmosis.

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