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If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add salt into the vegetables during cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables release water. What mechanism is responsible for this?

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The mechanism responsible for this is exosmosis.

The salt solution acts as a hypertonic solution compared to cellular environment which leads to movement of water from inside of cell to outside to restore the osmotic balance.

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