As soon as you add salt to salad, water comes out, why?
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Answer:
Because you put salt in the salads eyes
Explanation:
Explanation:
Well sodium chloride or table salt as you may call it, is hygroscopic in nature. So this means that in humid environments it'll absorb water from the atmosphere. This technically is a solution with high concentration of salt(solute) and very little water(solvent).
So when you sprinkle this salt( which is a solution BTW )over your salad that probably contains water-rich foods like cucumbers, zucchini etc. So these vegetable have water which is way more diluted than the salt ‘solution' you sprinkled.
The vegetables' flesh acts as a semipermeable layer. Ya , right! You know where I'm going with this. Concentrated solution, dilute solution, semi-permeable membrane.
Yes osmosis. Yup osmosis kicks in and the osmotic pressure causes the water to ooze out of veggies.
This will continue and the water level inside the vegetables will reduce, making the concentration higher and the salt gets dissolved by the oozing water and gets more dilute. This will stop only after both the solutions have reached the same concentration.