Egg Cell Data

Day Mass (g) Volume Remaining (mL) Observations

1 68 200 The egg looked like the shell was

bubbling

4 96.3 125 There are bubbles on the side

and foam on the top

The egg shell is gone

The egg is bigger

The egg is floating

5 54.6 225 It's smaller and shriveled

There's a lot more liquid orange

color

Membrane is thinner

6 93.1 160 The egg was bigger than when

we started the project

The egg was a little bit smaller

than day 4

Osmosis of an Egg for 6 Days

100 240

96.3
93.1

75 180

Volume Remaining (mL)

68
Mass of Egg (g)

50 54.6 120

25 60

200 125 225 160

0 0
1 4 5 6
Days

Mass (g) Volume Remaining (mL)

1) Some of the vinegar moved into the egg creating a hypotonic solution.
This is known because the mass of the egg increased from 68g to 96.3g
and there was only 125mL remaining in the beaker on day 4. The water
molecules moved into the egg to create a balanced solution.

2) The vinegar went out of the semi-permeable cell membrane when

placed in the syrup. This created a hypertonic solution because the
vinegar moved out of the egg into the beaker, which caused the
remaining volume level to increase from 200 mL to 225 mL. Another way
it is known that this is a hypertonic solution is because the egg cell
shriveled up because vinegar was diused from the cell and this caused
the mass decreased by 41.7g on day 5.

3) The egg let water out of the membrane to create an isotonic solution

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3) The egg let water out of the membrane to create an isotonic solution
in the egg and beaker on day 5. The liquid that was at the top of the
beaker above the syrup was the liquid that was let out of the egg. The
liquid above the syrup diused from the egg because the syrup had less
water than the syrup did, so the egg diused water through the cell
membrane to create homeostasis in the egg. When the water was
diused from the cell it caused the liquid volume level to rise up to 225
mL.

4) Placing the egg in the water created a hypotonic solution because

the water went into the egg because there were more water molecules
outside of the egg on day 6. Since this was a hypotonic solution the egg
mass swelled up to 93.1g from 54.6g. It is also known that this is a
hypotonic solution because the liquid volume decreased to 160 mL.

The hypothesis is validated because placing the egg in various liquids

caused the egg to create hypertonic or hypotonic solutions. The first and
sixth day there was a hypotonic solution and on the 5 day there was
hypertonic solution.

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Day 5

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