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XIf you have a lung cell with 30% oxgen inside the cell and 90% outside, and 70% Carbon dixide inside and 10% outside the cell, which way will each substance move and why?

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The oxygen will move to the cell therefore carbon dioxide will move outside the cell. Main rule of osmosis= a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution to a more concentrated until they are equalized