The Exist of Osmosis

With Potato
By:Amir Yahya Fauzi

High School High scope Indonesia

*interdiction
my hypothesis on this experiment is to prove that
there is osmosis that the water molecule is moving
in the cell from lower to higher concentration. With
this experiment we use potato as the cell and the
water in it as if this is right that the potato in the
water will be make too much of water so we will se
the water are rising and the potato is going to
make it weight even lighter and in the salt water
going to take the water molecule in the salt water
making the waters go down and the potato heavy
then the other one.
procedure
-the tool and material :
+300 ml of water
+2 beaker or container
+a potato that been cut into 2 with the amount of
the same weight
+a glass that could point how much water
+3 tea spoon of salt
+scale to measure the potato
+a knife to cut the potato
+ruler
+tissue or something to clean up
-how to do it?
1. Clean the 2 beaker
2. Then put the water in each beaker 150 ml, use
the glass measurement to help

3. Put 3 spoon of salt in one of the beaker and

mix it until it is realy mix
4. Cut the potato in 2, the potato must have the
same amount of weight to each other, use the
scale to help
5. Mesure each potato
6. Put the potato in each beake in the same time
7. Wait for 1 hour
8. After 1 hour we take the potato out of the
water
9. Then mesure the potato and the amount of
water left.
10.
Analyeze the result and make a table to
make it moe eazy to understand

Data table
Before
Water m
150 ml
Weight of p 39 g
Length
2.9 cm
Height
3.6 cm
Flexibility
stif
Texture
rough
Color

yellowish

S-water
151 ml
30 g
2.5 cm
3.5 cm
squishy
soft
darker
yellow

F-water
140 ml
35 g
3.1 cm
3.7 cm
stif
rough
yellowis
h

*result
the water in the salt waters is getting more water
and rising 1 ml and in the fresh water getting lower
and lower until 140 ml. the very unexpected is the
weight of the potato the 2 of them getting more
and more lighter. The size of potato change, the
length of salt waters potato its getting short its
turn from 2.9 to 25 cm and there height, turn from
3.6 to 3.5 cm long. The fresh waters potato it is
turn from 2.9 cm to 3.1 cm and the height turn

from 3.6 cm to3.7 cm. the potato turn texture,

color and flexibility, the flexibility of the potato in
salt waters its getting squishy and in the fresh
water its getting more and more stif then before.
The texture its getting soft in the salt water potato
and in the fresh water its getting rough, there color
dont much of a change but in salt water the potato
getting darker in the yellow area and the potato on
the fresh water still have the same color.
In this experiment it shows that the hypothesis
was wrong and not all is right. The mistake in the
experiment was the weight and the cause its a till
unknown why the one of the potato is not get
heavy then before.
But still The Conclusion is the potato in freshwater
is hypertonic, and the fresh water is hypotonic
solution. The potato in saltwater is hypotonic, and
the salt water is hypertonic solution that shows the
hypothesis not all wrong there are the movement
of waters molecule in the potato and it is show
there is a osmosis in a cell.