This process is a technique of osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of solvent particles. For example, water along its concentration gradient, from high to low concentration, via a semi-permeable membrane is changing the structure of the molecules in the potato strips.
Since the environment of the potato strips are in a sugar concentrate, the potato will lose its water content and so loses weight and the strips will be thinner and dryer.
The smallest unit of matter that has the characteristic properties of it’s element is called an “atom”.
Individual atoms are called “elements” for that reason.
There are smaller divisions of matter, however those no longer have the characteristics of the element that they may be a part of. A hydrogen electron is indistinguishable from an argon electron, or any other.
Climate effects and human impacts, that is, nutrient enrichment, simultaneously drive spatial biodiversity patterns. However, there is little consensus about their independent effects on biodiversity. ... Species turnover rates caused by nutrients do not increase toward higher temperatures
