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What will happen to red blood cells if they are placed in a 0.85% salt solution?

What will happen to red blood cells if they are placed in a 0.85% salt solution?
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What will happen to red blood cells if they are placed in a 0.85% salt solution?

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They would lose water by osmosis, and would end up shrinking and eventually shrivel up.


Hope that helped, Good luck! (:
User Jesper Grann Laursen
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They will shrink , that is your answer.
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