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Indicate whether crenation, hemolysis, or neither will occur?

A red blood cell is placed into each of the following solutions. Indicate whether crenation, hemolysis, or neither will occur?

Solution A: 2.96% (m/v) NaCl

Solution B: 2.64 (m/v) glucose

Solution D: 9.4% (m/v) glucose

Solution E: 5.0% (m/v) glucose and 0.9% (m/v) NaCl

Update:

Wow, Im not asking for calculations.Just list it. Its simple just say Crenation: A..... or Hemolysis: A....

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Plasma osmolarity is 275-300 mosm/L

    { (0.0296 g NaCl) / (1 L soln) } x { (1 mol NaCl) / (59 g NaCl) } x { (2 osm) / (1 mol NaCl) } = 1 mosm/L

    { (0.0264 g glc) / (1 L soln) } x { (1 mol glc) / (180 g glc) } x { (1 osm) / (1 mol NaCl) } = 150 mosm/L

    You can do the rest, pro forma.

    Crenelates in hypertonic solution, lyses in hypotonic solution.

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