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25 August, 10:44

Suppose you were trapped on a desert island with no sources of freshwater. Should you drink water from the ocean?

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  1. 25 August, 11:07
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    Answer: No

    Explanation:

    No

    This is because ocean water contain more salt and by drinking a water with too much salt in a desert you will get severely dehydrated.

    Dehydration occurs because a salty water will be hypertonic to your body cells. Hypertonic solution contain more solute relative to that in the cell. When a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution it will lose water to its environment by osmosis. This will cause the cells to shrink and may die of dehydration.
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