What is Imbibition? Give an examples.

1.	What is Imbibition? Give an examples.
Answer» Imbibition is the phenonmenon of adsorption of water or any other liquid by the solid particles of a substance without forming a solution. Some examples of Imbibition : (i) If a dry piece of wood is placed in water, it swells and increases in its volume. (ii) If dry gum or pieces of agar-agar are placed in water, they swell and their volume increases. (iii) When seeds are placed in water they swell up.

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Imbibition is the phenonmenon of adsorption of water or any other liquid by the solid particles of a substance without forming a solution.

Some examples of Imbibition :

(i) If a dry piece of wood is placed in water, it swells and increases in its volume.

(ii) If dry gum or pieces of agar-agar are placed in water, they swell and their volume increases.

(iii) When seeds are placed in water they swell up.

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