Osmosis Egg Lab Report

The above graph illustrate the further away it gets from isotonic, the higher the rate of osmosis will occur in the egg. (John Lui, 2016). Standard Deviation is a measure to determine how spread out the numbers. The lowest spread of data was at 2% and 5% sodium salt solution. The highest was at 0% and 10%. The egg which was placed in the 0% solution (distilled water) increased the most in mass as the distilled water had the highest water potential out of all the concentrations. The water molecules were then diffused through the egg membrane. This is due to osmosis; therefore the egg gained mass and became turgid. While the highest sodium chloride concentration of 10% was a hypertonic solution, in this case the egg shrink and shrivelled as water