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True story: when I was 17, I was socially awkward at a party, so I stood in the kitchen next to one of those fridges with a built in water dispenser and just kept refilling my cup whenever it was empty. After a couple hours I felt a little weird, so went to sit down in the living room. My uncle came over to talk to me and then abruptly accused me of being drunk because I was apparently slurring my words. I was water intoxicated (literal over hydration) as a consequence of osmosis. When I ingested large quantities of water, the salt concentration of my blood decreased, which caused water to move ___ my cells and ___ my blood stream, which caused brain ____.

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Question Completion:

A into, out of, swelling

B out of, into, swelling

C into, out of, shrinkage

D out of, into, shrinkage

Answer:

B out of, into, swelling

Explanation:

Osmosis occurs when there is the movement of water molecules from a solution with a high concentration of water molecules to a solution with a lower concentration of water molecules through a cell's partially permeable membrane.  

In this case, the movement of water out of her cells into her bloodstream caused her brain to swell, making her to look intoxicated.

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