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Fill a wineglass
to overflowing with dried peas, pour in water up to the brim, and place the
glass on a metal lid. The pea heap becomes slowly higher and then a clatter of
falling peas begins, which goes on for hours. This is again an osmotic process.
Water penetrates into the pea cells through the skin and dissolves the
nutrients in them. The pressure thus formed makes the peas swell. In the same
way the water necessary for life penetrates the walls of all plant cells,
stretching them. If the plant obtains no more water, its cells become flabby
and it wilts.
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