The ingredients in pedialyte are: water, dextrose, potassium citrate, sodium chloride, sodium citrate, and citric acid. I NEED TO KNOW for a science project... thanks!
2007-06-05 13:42:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
You want to know for your science project , but your approach is , sad to say , unscientific.
1) You have not mentioned what plants ?, what age ? how many were given the solution and how manywere killed ?
2 ) How did you administer the solution ?Put it in the soil or injected ? Only once or repeatedly ?
Even for the humans it is to be administered in doses taking in to consideration the age and the weight factor.
Pedialyte and for that matter any certified oral re-hydration liquid is harmless to the patients and a life saver .
It is NOT TOXIC .
It restores the water , electrolytes and salt / mineral balance in the body ; which is rapidly lost due to diarrhea , cholera and vomiting.
With out that the death is almost certain.
Not a single ingredient in it is toxic per se.
But
The formulation is for humans and not for plants.
2007-06-09 04:47:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you pour it into the soil you are subjecting the root hairs to
all those salts and other molecules in solution. Water diffuses (actually osmosis) from an area of high concentration to low concentration. Since you have
a higher concentration of water inside the root hairs than in the surrounding soil , more water leaves the root hairs than enters it.
The soil and pedialyte solution is said to be "hypertonic" to the root hair cells. The plant will lose turgor pressure (i.e.wilting),
partially dehydrate and die.
Throw some table or rock salt on a plant and you will get the same result.
2007-06-07 03:30:09 · answer #2 · answered by ursaitaliano70 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An educated guess would be all the SODIUM! Sodium is salt and salt leaches all the water and moisture that a plant would need to thrive. An even better question would be why do parents feed their children something that is so toxic that it kills plants!!!
2007-06-05 13:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by answergrrl3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These probably overload the plant's system. While in nature a plant might need some salt or potassium, Pedialyte probably contains far too much and kills it. Just like if we have too much salt it can kill us.
2007-06-05 13:46:42 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would assume the salt content.. but thats just a guess... dont quote me.
2007-06-05 13:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by nease174 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋