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An osmometer is filled with 0.5 M soluti...

An osmometer is filled with 0.5 M solution of NaCl in water. In which of the following solutions it must be immersed in order to make it shrink

A

0.5 M solution

B

0.05 M solution

C

Distilled water

D

0.75 M solution

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D

In .0 75 M solute the solute conc. is more than 75M 0.5M the solution of NaCl as a result water moves outside of the cell sap and size of cell decrease.
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