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cryptonector
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The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh fo...
Really high sugar concentrations will pop the cells of any simple organisms.
kragen
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No, low. High sugar concentrations mean low water activity, which osmotically pumps water
out
of cells, not
into
them, so they shrivel rather than popping.
cryptonector
7 months ago
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Thanks.
kragen
7 months ago
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Sure!
Terr_
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I like to imagine it as humans stranded in a strange land where all the geography is dry cake. And
only
dry cake.
xandrius
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I definitely have been in some countries where their desserts felt from a strange land indeed: everything dried :'(. I need moist.
xattt
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