Hans Aditya P.

Ireneus Vanessa M. (21)

Mikael Fernando
Theresia Clairine (30)
Trival Candra P. (31)

Background
To know the process OSMOSIS
To know WHY osmosis happen

Problem Statement?
Does the concentration of the salt solution make any difference
to the osmosis process?
Does 10 minutes enough to complete the osmosis process in the
potato?

Objectives!
To know whether 10 minutes are effective
to show the results of osmosis.
To see the difference of results of osmosis
for each different concentration of salt
solution.

Hypothesis
Every concentration will have different
final mass.

Basic Theory
Osmosis is the result
of diffusion across a semipermeable membrane. If two
solutions of different concentration are
separated by a semi-permeable
membrane, then the solvent will
tend to diffuse across the
membrane from the less
concentrated to the more
concentrated solution. This process
is called osmosis.
Semi-permeable membranes are
very thin layers of material and these
allow small molecules like oxygen,
water, Carbon Dioxide, Ammonia,
Glucose, amino-acids etc. to pass
through. But they do not allow larger
molecules like sucrose, protein etc. to
pass through.

MATERIALS & APPARATUS

A. Materials

Salt solution (5%)

Salt soluton (10%)

Salt solution (20%)

Potato

B. Apparatus

Tube potato slicer

Petri dish (3)

Knife

Cutting mat

Ruler

PROCEDURE
1. Use the tool provided (tube potato slicer)to
prepare some potato strips which have similar
length.
2. Scale all mass of potato strips.
3. Immerse the potato strips in petri dish filled
with the salt solutions 5%, 10%, and 20%, for
10 minutes.
4. After 10 minutes, dry all the potato strips, and
scale its final masses.

5. Analyze you data using a table or a graph.

6. Explain the data.

Until reach EQUILIBRIUM

Water
Molecule

 Greater

water potential difference

supposed to lead greater osmosis and
greater mass decrement.
Nevertheless, all potato strips shrunk by
the same mass in every type of solution.
This data should be valid, because we
used 3 samples for each type of solutions.
10 minutes is too short.

 It

should takes longer time on dipping the

potato strips to obtain the real mass
decrement for each type of solution.

Greater

water potential difference

supposed to lead greater osmosis and
greater mass decrement.

False

hypothesis