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Note ... the property of a cell membrane is that no particles can pass through it.

At least not unaided. Cells have (make) specific proteins that are embedded within the membrane to pass materials back and forth.

Due to the construction of a cell membrane (fat on both sides of a monomolecular layer of water) only molecules that are soluble in both lipids and water can get through at all.

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