Homework Help: last question sci. :)

Posted by Lena on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 10:02pm.

road salt has been dropped on grass. keep osmosis in mind, what would happen?

answer:
since the road salt is hypertonic solution and therefore the water in the grass would diffuse into the road salt thus causing the grass to die.

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