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To get into or out of cells, dissolved substances have to cross the cell
membranes.
solute ~ particles in solution ( e.g. glucose, sodium ions, chloride ions ).
solvent ~ liquid in which the particles are dissolved ( e.g. water ).
particles move
intestine
digested food
products
lungs
oxygen
from
to
In the intestine, the concentration of molecules used by the body for energy,
growth and repair are in higher concentration in the intestinal cavity
than in the blood.
In the lungs, the blood will continue to take in oxygen from the alveolar air
spaces provided the concentration of oxygen there is greater than in
the blood.
Oxygen diffuses across the alveolar walls into the blood, and the circulation
takes the oxygen-rich blood away.
cytoplasm.
a lower solute
will enter the