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Question
Give reasons for the following:
If you sprinkle some common salt on grass growing on a lawn, it is killed at that spot.
Solution
Common salt, when sprinkled on the grass, causes the plasmolysis of grass cells, ultimately leading to their death. Hence, if we sprinkle some common salt on grass growing on a lawn, it is killed on the spot.
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