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Hypertonic Hypotonic
« on: February 25, 2013, 09:39:53 pm »
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Can anyone explain to me hypertonic and hypotonic in relation to Osmosis preferably with an example. My teacher gave us one relating  to a fish and the concentration of salt but i didn't get it. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Hypertonic Hypotonic
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 09:44:29 pm »
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Hypotonic: A solution is hypotonic if it has less salt conc. than an external solution.
i.e. fresh water fish in fresh water
fresh water implies low salt conc. inside the fish they have salts. thus the water is hypotonic relative to the fish's insides

Hypertonic. a solution is hypertonic if it has more salt conc. than an external solution
fresh water implies low salt conc. inside the fish they have salts. thus the fishs insides are hypertonic in relation to the fresh water
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Re: Hypertonic Hypotonic
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 09:46:02 pm »
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and whats an isotonic solution
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Re: Hypertonic Hypotonic
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 09:47:04 pm »
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and whats an isotonic solution

Same concentration

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Re: Hypertonic Hypotonic
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 09:56:43 pm »
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Same concentration

Pretty much, but I'll just elaborate on that a bit so the wording's better :P

Isotonicity is when a solution has the same tonicity (or concentration) as another solution that it is being compared to, i.e. when you're looking at the internal and external environments of a cell, you can consider the two regions as separate solutions. When the concentrations of solute in these two regions is equal, the cell is said to be in an isotonic state.
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