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when you are in water for too long your finguers look puffy and wrinkly , explain how osmosis accounts for this​

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Water being pulled into dead skin cells (keratin) on our epidermis would cause them to swell. The swollen outer layer of skin, still tightly attached to the layers beneath, would then wrinkle due to the increased surface area

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