Your friend notes that Gatorade has electrolytes like sodium and potassium chloride.  He figures that if a few electrolytes are good for you, then a lot must be even better.  Following this logic, he adds nearly a tablespoonful of salt to his Gatorade.  What kind of solution is his Gatorade now (hypotonic, isotonic, or hypertonic)?  What will likely happen to his cells if he drinks this liquid?

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Osmosis

In simple words, osmosis is the slow, gradual movement of a liquid through a membrane. But there are nuances to this process. For instance, there has to be an imbalance in the distribution of solute in the liquid on either side of the membrane, which has to be semipermeable. The liquid in the region with a lower solute concentration moves to the region with a higher concentration, thereby displacing the solution in the process. The objective is to equalize the concentration of molecules on both sides of the membrane; the displacement of liquid can be viewed as a byproduct of this equalization. Since there is no energy required to carry osmosis, it is considered a passive process.