Do raisins swell in rain water or mustard oil or saline water or saturated sugar solution?
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Raisins contain hypertonic solution which gains water by endosmosis across the semi-permeable cell membrane of raisins. So,they swell up in tap water. When they are put in rainwater,they lose water by exosmosis and as a result they shrink.
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