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Osmosis is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane in a response to gradients of concentration, pressure, or temperature.

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What word is used to define when water moves from a dilute solution to a concentrated solution?

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Define the term osmosis?

Osmosis is the movement of water molecules across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of higher water concentration to an area of lower water concentration, in order to equalize the concentration of solute on both sides of the membrane.


What is the easiest way to define osmosis?

Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration through a selectively permeable membrane, such as a cell membrane. This process helps to maintain the balance of water and solutes in living organisms.


Passive transport of water is known as?

floating


Define reverse osmosis?

Reverse Osmosis is the method of producing pure water by forcing saline or impure water through a semipermeable membrane across which salts or impurities cannot pass. Reverse osmosis is used for water filtration, for desalinization of seawater, and in kidney dialysis machines.


What process is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane?

The process of water passing through a selectively permeable membrane is called osmosis. Water will move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration in order to equalize the solute concentrations on both sides of the membrane.


What function diffuses water molecules?

Osmosis


When raisins absorb water is it diffusion or osmosis?

osmosis


How do you spell osmosis?

The correct spelling of "osmosis" is O-S-M-O-S-I-S.


What solution causes osmosis?

Hypotonic Solution causes osmosis.


A sentence with the word osmosis?

Today we learned about osmosis in school


What is the formula to calculate the rate of osmosis?

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