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You fill a bag made of semipermeable membrane with a .5mol/litre solution of sugar, seal it and immerse it in a .3mol/litre solution of salt and water. What will happen?This is not a test question, please simplify to as simple terminology as possible.

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This problem is asking what will happen if a semipermeable membrane filled with sugar is dipped into salt solution.

This is an example of osmosis. Semipermeable membrane is a type of biological or synthetic, polymeric membrane that will allow certain molecules or ions to pass through it by osmosis.

So what will happen is that water molecules can pass through the membrane. The salt ions can not pass through the membrane. The net flow of solvent molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a pure solvent (in this cause water) to a more concentrated solution is called osmosis.

In simple terms, osmosis will occur, which is a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.

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