How Does Distilled Water Affect Potatoes

Abstract: What our problem in our experiment is that distilled water gain mass because there is a higher concentration of solutes while the other solutions contain a lower concentration of solutes. The different types of liquid can affect how the potatoes change or not. Our data shows that Potatoes that were put in the distilled water gained mass while the 5% salt water, 10% salt water, Gatorade, and Coca-Cola lose mass. We also concluded that liquids with high concentration gained mass while low concentration liquids did not.

Introduction: We are experimenting if the distilled water, 5% salt water, 10% salt water, Gatorade, and Coca-Cola can affect the size of the potatoes. Our hypothesis was that, if the potatoes were placed in the water then the potatoes would expand because the potato would soak the distilled water if they were placed in other solutions than the potato will lose mass. The Independent Variable is the Types of Solution and, The Dependent Variable is the size of the potatoes. …show more content…
The reason that the distilled water increase the size of the mass is because water was coming in the cell which expands the potato cell, the potato cell became hypertonic. A cell that is hypertonic expand or even explode if there is too much water. The Other solutions like 5% salt water, 10% salt water, Gatorade, and Coca-Cola caused the potato to lose mass. It lost mass because the cell started to shrink, the cell became hypotonic. The potato cell began to shrink because water started to leave out of the cell. The potato cell was high concentrated and the other solutions were low concentrated. A cell that is hypotonic will shrink and it needs more