What will happen if blood cells are kept in 5%of nacl?

Question

What will happen if blood cells are kept in 5%of nacl?

Answer 1

Think about tonicity. Is it a hypertonic, hypertonic, or isotonic solution? That may help a little.

Answer 2

Normal saline is 0.9% NaCl, so 5% would be a high salt content as compared to the interior of the red blood cell.  So, water would diffuse out of the red blood cell from the area of relatively higher concentration (inside the cell) to the area of relatively lower water concentration (outside the cell) and the red blood cell would shrivel.

Answer 3

They will shrivel up like little 7 micron raisins as the water gets *sucked* out of them. *shrivel shrivel*

Answer 4

if we keep the cell in Nacl as it is a hypertyonic solution, water from cell comes out to balance the concentration(equilibrim) results in Shrinkage

Answer 5

You know that any percentage of nacl ie salt is hypertonic . Therrefore thecell willlose all its water content

Answer 6

human blood cells contains 0.9% salt...so the 5% solution is hypo tonic ....therefore due to osmosis water would flow into the cells and they would swell

Answer 7

They will shrivel up because the salt will go into the cells and "push" the water out (it wants to achieve the same concentration of salt inside the cell as outside)

Answer 8

5% nacl is considered as a concentrated solution, hepertonic. i.e has a concentration higher than the red blood cell contents.

the cell shrinks and wrinkles due to the fluid lost from it through the cell surface membrane, by a mechanism called osmosis.

osmosis in the movement of water molecules from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration of the water molecules accross a partially permeable membrane.

hope i helped