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A flowering plant is planted in an earthen pot and irrigated. Urea is added to make the plant grow faster, but after sometime the plant dies. This may be due to ....

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The plant dies due to exosmosis because due to exosmosis, there is urea outside, so the solution becomes hypertonic.
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