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Adults who are on their feet alot for work will often soak their swollen ankles in a pail of hot water with Epsom salt dissolved in it what type of solution is the foot soaking in.
1. Hypertonic
2. Hypotonic
3. Isotonic

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The type of solution formed is hypertonic.

What are hypertonic solutions?

Hypertonic solutions are solutions with higher dissolved solutes as compared to the sap of the cells suspended in them.

Epsom salt is made up largely of magnesium sulfate. Thus, a solution formed by dissolving Epsom salt is water will have more magnesium in it than the cells of the part of the body soaked in it.  

Hence, such a solution is hypertonic.

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