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It is not incorrect. There is a sentence to remember: "water follows salt". This always true concerning a semipermeable membrane. Water can go either way and has no need for any sort of transport mechanisms. It will try to make the "salty" side more like the "less salty" side to even them out.

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Comparison of osmosis and reverse osmosis?

Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration. Reverse osmosis is a process that uses pressure to force water molecules across a semi-permeable membrane, removing impurities and particles. Reverse osmosis is a more efficient process for purifying water compared to osmosis.


What substance pass through the cell membrane by the process of osmosis?

Water is the main substance that passes through the cell membrane by the process of osmosis. This movement occurs from an area of higher water concentration to an area of lower water concentration, in order to balance the solute concentrations on either side of the membrane. Osmosis helps maintain the cell's internal environment and regulates the movement of water into and out of the cell.


What is reverse osmosis water?

Reverse osmosis, or RO, water is water that has been purified using reverse osmosis techniques. Osmosis is something that occurs naturally, it's when a solvent (something that is dissolved in a solution) passes through a semi-permeable membrane from an area where there is a lot of it, to an area that does not have a lot of that solvent. In reverse osmosis, this process is basically, well, reversed. A reverse osmosis machine uses a semi-permeable membrane as a filter and it also uses a lot of pressure, more pressure than the normal process of osmosis creates. The product, RO water, is free of any impurities that might have been present before it went through the machine. People use these machines to make sea water safe to drink, by removing all the salt. They also use them to purify water that is going to be used in very sensitive environments, such as coral tanks or other marine tanks.


Which passes through a filter paper without being separated a suspension or solution?

A solution passes through a filter paper without being separated, as it contains particles that are small enough to pass through the pores of the filter paper. Suspensions, on the other hand, contain larger particles that get trapped by the filter paper, leading to separation from the liquid.


Which passes through filter paper without being separated a suspension or a solution why?

A solution passes through filter paper without being separated, as it consists of uniformly mixed particles (solvent and solute) at a molecular level. In contrast, a suspension contains larger particles that do not dissolve and would be held back by the filter paper, leading to separation.

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Why would it be incorrect to say that in osmosis water only passes from the weaker solution to the stronger?

It is the other way around. Water passes from the one w/ more water to the one with less.


What is a type of diffusion in which water passes through a cell membrane?

Osmosis


What is the prosses when water passes through an animal cell?

i think its called osmosis


During osmosis what passes through a cell membrane?

Water, from high to low concentration.


What is chemiosmois?

chemiosmois is when a chemical passes from high to low concentration. think of it as chemical osmosis


Water passes into or out of a cell?

Water enters and exits a cell by osmosis, which is the diffusion of water.


What is the special type of diffusion where the solute passes through a selectively permeable membrane?

Osmosis


What passes through a filter a suspension or a solution?

The solution pass through a filter.


How does osmosis explain the movement of water across cell membranes?

Osmosis is the movement of water from a solution of high concentration to a solution of lower concentration through a membrane. Water passes through the membrane, diluting the solution of higher concentration on the other side, until both solutions on either side of the membrane have equal concentrations.


What is it called when Water passes through the cell membrane from a high concentrated area to a less concentrated area?

Osmosis


Water spreading through a membrane with a change in cell size is an example of what?

Water molecules spreading through a membrane with a change in cell size is an example of osmosis. In osmosis fluid passes both in and out of the semipermeable membrane in osmosis, but usually there's a net flow in one direction.


Explain What happens when a beam of light passes through a colloidal solution and why?

When a beam of light passes through a colloidal solution, the light scatters off the suspended particles in the solution in all directions. This scattering of light is known as the Tyndall effect. The intensity of the scattered light depends on the size of the particles in the colloidal solution.