A student has a beaker which has a semi permeable membrane running through the middle. If on the left side of the membrane, there is a sucrose solution, and on the right side of the membrane there is distilled water. What would happen after 5 hours?
This question sort of got me... Look, distilled water means there are absolutely no solutes in it. So, obviously in the left side of the membrane (the sucrose solution) there is more solutes as compared to the distilled water. So, after 5 hours, would the distilled water completely diffuse through the membrane and into the sucrose solution? I would say all of the water will, because it will naturally try to reach equilibrium, but because it has no solutes at all, the left side will keep absorbing the water untill there is none left in the right side.
Is what I said true? Because this question deffs questioned my performance in bio, completely destroyed my confidence :/