The factor that determined the rate and direction of osmosis in the experiment was the amount of solute in the dialysis tube. This is shown through the amount of water that transferred into the dialysis tube as the sucrose concentration was raised. As the ratio from solute to water was heightened (as shown within the graph and data table), the amount of water that was transferred into the dialysis tube increased. From the data collected, it can be concluded that water and solute will move through the dialysis tubes to balance out the concentration, though in this case the tubing was not permeable to sucrose due to it’s size, seen in the increase in mass with each dialysis tube. For instance, when there was only a molarity of 0.2, the mass of
