What role does water play in diffusion and osmosis?

Answer 1

For Diffusion: water provides an environment for the particles to move around in, from higher concentration to lower concentration

For Osmosis: this is like Diffusion, moving from "high concentration" to "low concentration" But, it works thus: In a closed environment, like a cell, if there is say X number of particles inside and

In either case, it would be very bad. But these processes occur all the time inside Humans, and are neccessary to maintain Homeostasis

Answer 2

Osmosis is the movement of water from a high solute concentration to a low solute comcentration, it is required for osmosis. diffusion is not always but ususally water for the same thing

Answer 3

well water plays a role of a solvent in both of these phenomena. diffusion is transfer of solute from a region of more conc. to less conc, whereas osmosis is movement of solute particles from higher E.C.P(electro - chem. potential) to lower E.C.P. across a semi permeable membrane. in both the cases there is involvement of the solute, so the solution doesnt matter much. by the way osmosis is a colligative property i.e. depends only on solute conc., (well diffusion isnt,)

Answer 4

For the most part, water is the solvent involved in these two processes. Water is the solvent through which a substance diffuses, and water is the solvent which passes through a membrane. Other solvents can also be diffused with solutes, and other solvents can also pass through membranes but water is typically the solvent in most living processes.

Answer 5

water does note play a role in osmosis or diffusion
it only it gets osmosed,which is the passage of water from out of a cell and into one

Answer 6

I wrote a 10 pager paper on Osmosis last semester - and I still don't get it.

Answer 7

an important role cos' without wateer, diffusion and osmosis can't take place.

Answer 8

in both these, the movement of the water takes place from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration

Answer 9

Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis.

Answer 10

It does those things.