Potato Osmolarity Lab Report

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In this experiment, we set out to determine the osmolarity of a potato. In order to do this, we placed potato pieces in seven different solutions of varying sucrose molarity. First, we weighed each potato piece to obtain the initial weight, shown in Figure 1. Then, we split the pieces vertically before placing them in the cubs containing the sucrose solutions. In each cup was a solution of sucrose with a molarity ranging from 0.0M to 0.6M. After placing the potatoes in the cups, we allowed them to incubate for an hour and half, swirling each cup every fifteen minutes. Following the hour and a half incubation period, we reweighed the potato pieces of each cup to determine the final weight, demonstrated in Figure 1. Also, depicted in Figure

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