Saw it hmmmm might need to go to another thread....so what's the % in the video in terms of tds or ppm? Ps the first comment was a joke lol peace!
We would talk about this in terms of EC to be more precise because this is a better measure of
ionic strength which is really what drives osmosis.
Let's make two assumptions to discuss this:
1. Outside and inside the cell have equal starting volumes
2. The cell membrane has infinite elasticity (ie it won't burst and it shrinks to fit the volume)
So if you had inside the cell is 5.0EC and outside is 2.5EC (
hypotonic solution) water will go into the cell until both inside and outside of the cell become
isotonic to each other. This means they will split the difference (because they start at equal volume)
So the cell will increase in size and the volume outside the cell with decrease and we'll end up with an EC of 3.75EC.
If we flip that argument and say inside the cell is 2.5EC and outside is 5.0EC (a
hypertonic solution) the cell will shrink as water flows out of it and the volume of water outside the cell will thus increase. This
concentrates the solutes inside the cell and
dilutes the solutes outside of it. This is the basis of how osmosis works. This all happens because of entropy. Again the final concentration here will yield an EC of 3.75.
Another way to remember this is that water will osmose to a place of lower salt concentration to one of higher salt concentration.
This is why salt is good for curing things--adding salt to the outside of the meat/other product cause the moisture to be drawn out as it travels from an area of lower concentration to an area of higher concentration. What could be more concentrated than pure salt? This is how I remember what osmosis is (keeping in mind the process of salt curing).
Once again while this all seems so complicated it highlights something which is pretty ubiquitous in chemistry. This idea that everything operates on equilibrium or
balance. Osmotic pressure only drives work (movement of water) until the
osmotic force from either side of a membrane is equalized. The solution on either side of a membrane wants to be isotonic--and it only drives movement of water in either direction until that balance is met.
Think of shaking up a can of soda. This builds up pressure inside the can. When you open it it ejects soda rapidly because of the huge pressure difference inside and outside of the can. It stops shooting soda out once the pressure has equalized.
Or think of an airlock being opened in space, it sucks all the air out into the vaccum of space until the pressure is equalized. Once all the air is sucked out there will be no more tendency for things to be "pulled" out of the spaceship.
You can think of the reverse argument as opening the hatch of a submarine underwater. There is huge pressure difference from the water vs the inside of the submarine. The water will rush around knocking everyone and everything over with immense force until
the pressure has equalized. Once the submarine is full of water--if you had a scuba tank on you'd be free to swim around inside of it, the flow of water would have stopped.
Of course these are governed by barometric and hydrostatic pressure respectively--but osmotic pressure isn't all that different, it's just controlled by a different type of force.