Meena’s mother prepared a cucumber salad and garnished it with salt and pepper. After some time, she noticed that a lot of water had accumulated in the salad…

exosmosis

Reason — The salt sprinkled on the cucumber makes the solution outside the cells more concentrated, that is hypertonic. Water therefore moves out of the cucumber cells through their semipermeable membranes and collects in the bowl. This outward movement of water is called exosmosis.