Osmosis and Gummy Bears

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alkaye
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Osmosis and Gummy Bears

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We conducted an osmosis with gummy bears experiment and discovered that sparkling water consistently made the gummy bear the largest, even more than distilled water. Do you know why? We are using a scale to weigh the gummy bear in grams, first after 12 hours submerged in 56 grams of each liquid and then 24 hours submerged. Thanks for your help!
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Re: Osmosis and Gummy Bears

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We are hoping to get help with this question asap, the project is due in a few days. Thank in advance for sharing your thoughts on this.
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Re: Osmosis and Gummy Bears

Post by audreyln »

Hello,

This sounds like a fun experiment. In order to help I need to know a little bit more about the experiment. Do you have a link you could share with the procedure? I searched the Science Projects on this website but couldn't find anything involving gummy bears.

Thanks,

Audrey
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Re: Osmosis and Gummy Bears

Post by erlineconstant6 »

You could also try conducting the experiment with other liquids to see how different substances can do osmosis through-out a gummy bear.
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