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An innovative professor who wanted to gibe a live demonstratin of physiological process, filled a glass bottle with previously mointend mustard speed and water. He screqcapped the bottle and kept in away in a corner and resumed his lecture. Towards the end of his lecture there was a sudden explosion with glass pieces of bottle thtown around. Which of the following phenomena did the professor want to demonstrate ?

A

Diffusion

B

Osmosis

C

Anaerobic respiration

D

lmbibition

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IF certain substances of examples seeds are dropped in water, within a few hour they absorbs the water and weell up considerably. These substances are called imbibants and the phonomenon is known as imbibition. The blast occurred due to increasing imbibitional pressure whose magnitude is extremely high.
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