Word Finder - osmosis

definition

The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.

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Picking up knowledge accidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.

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I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.

This particular filter purifies the water through osmosis.

I wish I could just absorb the information I need to know for my anatomy final through osmosis into my brain.

Osmosis is one method of diffusion, which is when molecules distribute themselves evenly.

Today in class we are learning about the process of water purification through reverse osmosis.

Amy learns all of the new material so quickly is seems that she learns by osmosis.

Plants take in water from the ground via osmosis.

Our carbon filters are fine, but we should definitely replace the reverse osmosis units soon or we'll run out of drinkable water.

I wish that Emily's good attitude could rub off onto her cousin through osmosis.

Despite the impoverished state of the kingdom, the last century of Lusignan rule finally witnessed a social and cultural osmosis.

It is then pushed at high pressure through filters in a process described as reverse osmosis.

Nowadays, by some kind of reverse osmosis, the world parish has come home.

Is the reader supposed to ' drink ' the book or by touching it acquire or intuit its content through some psychic osmosis?

An additional advantage of this process is that it can help protect the hull topsides from Osmosis.

Westermaier and Godlewski put forward the view that the living cells of the medullary rays of the wood, by a species of osmosis, act as a kind of pumping apparatus, by the aid of which the water is lifted to the top of the tree, a series of pumping-stations being formed.

They obtain food entirely by osmosis through the striated cuticle, and this food consists not of blood, as in flukes, but of chyle, by which they are bathed in their favourite site, the small intestine.

Reverse Osmosis works using water pressure, water is forced through a semi permeable fabric, also known as the membrane.

Where a Reverse Osmosis type water softener system is fitted.

This is turn sets up a concentration gradient across which water moves by osmosis out of the xylem cells and across the leaf.

Uses reverse osmosis to produce an average of 7 gallons per hour.

The water of the soil, which in well-drained soil is met with in the form of delicate films surrounding the particles of solid matter, is absorbed into the plant by the delicate hairs borne by the young roots, the entry being effected by a process of modified osmosis.

We do this by using a technique called reverse osmosis which is a filtration process.

The rest of us (kind of) learn what they are talking about through gradual osmosis.

From 2002, a separate " primary osmosis " has been issued alongside the main newsletter.

This is why I prefer the electro osmosis method.

Reverse osmosis a high pressure filtration system that uses selectively permeable membranes with extremely small pores to separate ions and particles.

Water was specially treated by reverse osmosis and using water softeners to remove aluminum.