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What would happen to a grape placed in a bowl with highly concentrated sugar water

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The grape is going to shrivel up. Reason for this is that the fluids in the grape and going to leak out in an attempt to equalize the sugar concentration inside the grape with what's outside the grape. This is an example of the grape being in a hypertonic solution.
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