Sunday, July 21, 2013

Week 3

   We've been talking about salt, water, and molarity lately. While we've been talking about that, I was thinking about how salt dissolves slugs. The salt causes osmolarity in the slug which causes the slug to dehydrate and shrivels it up. The slug is majorility made up of water. 
   Osmosis which we learned brings things from high water concentration to low water concentration which causes water to absorb from things. I always thought that this was a cool process when I was a kid. I would always go out in the rain to find slugs just to "melt" them. Some say its a cruel way to kill a slug, but its very educational to me to see the process of the salt sucking all the water from the slug and leaving nothing left.

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