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Q. A red blood cell (RBC) was kept in a certain solution for few minutes and it got burst. The said solution was :

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When an $RBC$ is kept in a hypotonic solution then, water enters the $RBC$ by the process of osmosis (Endosmosis). The $RBC$ will increase in size and ultimately burst. Osmosis is the movement of solvent particles from hypotonic to hypertonic medium through semipermeable membrane.