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What is the diffusion of water from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated solution through a membrane?
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It is called osmosis.
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What is the diffusion of water from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated soultion through a membrane?
osmosis
What is the diffusion of water of another solvent from a more dilute solution to a more concentrated solution through a membrane that is permeable to the solvent?
OSMOSIS
What is a process of osmosis?
Osmosis is the diffusion of water or another solvent from a more dilute solution (of a solute) to a more concentrated solution (of the solute) through a membrane that is permeable to the solvent.
Why is it called osmosis rather than diffusion?
Diffusion is the spreading of something more widely. While osmosis is when molecules pass through a semi-permeable membrane into a more concentrated solution.
Osmosis is a type of what process?
Osmosis is the diffusion of water or another solvent from a more dilute solution (of a solute) to a more concentrated solution (of the solute) through a membrane that is permeable to the solvent.
How does osmosis take up water?
Osmosis is the transfer of a solvent (e.g. water) through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution on one side to a more concentrated solution on the other side. Osmosis is driven by ordinary statistical diffusion, the same movement of solvent occurs even without the membrane but the membrane prevents other types of mixing (e.g. mechanical, convection) that would allow mixing of solutes in the solutions. Only mixing by diffusion through the membrane is allowed.
What moves materials through cells from high concentrated areas to low concentrated areas?
Osmosis diffusion, osmosis is with water thrugh a semi permiable membrane, it uses no energy. diffusion is the answer.
When a protein channel allows molecules to cross through the cell membrane?
when a protein channel allows molecules to cross through the cell membrane this is called facilitated diffusion. many might mistake this for diffusion which is the process by which molecules tend to move from an area where they are more concentrated to an area where they are less concentrated.
How is diffusion different from osmosis?
The essential idea is the same: diffusion is the process by which molecules spread from areas of high concentratiion, to areas of low concentration. Osmosis is the process by which molecules of WATER spread from areas of high concentration (such as a dilute solution) to areas of low concentration (such as a concentrated solution), typically through a selectively permeable membrane. In short: Diffusion occurs as is, while osmosis occurs through a semi permeable membrane.
What is a short definition of osmosis?
A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
What is the tendency of a solvent to move through a thin porous membrane from a dilute solution to a more concentrated solution?
If the solvent is water, it would be osmosis.
What is the best description of osmosis?
Osmosis is a proces of transfer of a diluted solution in the zone of a more concentrated solution through a semi-permeable membrane.
