You decide to try your hand at canning pickles. you immerse freshly picked cucumbers in a solution that has a solute concentration twice that found in the cucumber cells. you allow your preparation to cure for several months in a sealed jar. when you later open the jar, you find that the fluid surrounding the pickles is more dilute than when you started. this change in concentration is due to .

The answer is-  Pickles in a hypertonic solution losing water through osmosis

Explanation:

Osmosis is a process in which water or other solvent pass through a semipermeable membrane or plasma membrane from a less concentrated solution (low solute) to a more concentrated solution (high solute). The cells of the pickles which have been placed in a hypertonic solution lost water as the water which is a lower solute concentration moved to a  higher solute concentration which was twice that found in cucumber cells.. Osmotic process does not require the application of energy.

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