Explain why, osmosis can be considered to be a specieal kind of diffusion. (i) osmosis, and
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Date: 2020-01-26

Explain why, osmosis can be considered to be a specieal kind of diffusion. (i) osmosis, and (ii) diffusion : (a) swelling up of a raisin on keeping in water (b) spreading of virus on sneezing (c ) earthworm dying on coming in contact with common salt (d) shrinking of grapes kept in thick sugar syrup (e) preserving of pickles in salt (f) spreading of smell of cake being baked in the kitchen (g) aquatic animals using oxygen dissolved in water during respiration