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Is ocean water (salt water) hypertonic, hypotonic or isotonic to your body? Explain why. (where is there more salt, in the salt water or in your cells? knowing this, what is the prefix that matches the
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Is ocean water (salt water) hypertonic, hypotonic or isotonic to your body? Explain why. (where is there more salt, in the salt water or in your cells? knowing this, what is the prefix that matches the salt water?)

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Answer: Ocean water is hypotonic to your body.

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Why?

The osmotic pressure of of the ocean water is greater(dur to huge number Na+ ions) than that of our body.As a result ocean water is hypertonic with respect to our body.

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