Imagine a balloon is made from a membrane that's permeable to water but not sucrose molecules. how would the balloon be affected if it is filled with a 50% sucrose solution and then placed in a beaker of water? the balloon would eventually burst. the balloon would not change in size or volume. the balloon would get smaller as it loses water. the balloon would get larger as it gains water.

The balloon would get larger as it gains water

Explanation:

Due to the process of osmosis, water molecules would passively move from an area of lower solute concentration, the water in the beaker, to an area of higher solute concentration, inside the balloon.

alkaline metals are lithium, sodium, rubidium, potassium, cesium and francium.

alkali metals have electronegativity from 0.7 to 1, lowest in periodic table of elements, which means that alkali metals (i group in periodic table) has positive oxidation number in compounds.

electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards itself.

alkaline metals (far left in main group) have lowest ionizations energy and easy remove valence electrons,

for example, potassium is the alkali metal and has a single valence electron in the outer electron shell.

electron configuration of potassium is: ₁₉k 1s²2s²2p⁶3s²3p⁶4s¹.

they can not exist alone in nature, because they are very reactive.