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    Osmosis (/ɒzˈmoʊsɪs/, US also /ɒs-/) is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively-permeable membrane from a...
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  • Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water purification process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to separate water molecules from other substances. RO applies...
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  • Osmosis Jones is a 2001 American live-action/animated buddy cop comedy film written by Marc Hyman. Combining live-action sequences directed by the Farrelly...
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  • Social osmosis or cultural osmosis is the indirect infusion of social or cultural knowledge. Effectively, social content is diffused, and by happenstance...
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  • Look up osmosis, osmose, or osmotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Osmosis is the movement of molecules through a membrane. Osmosis may also refer...
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    Forward osmosis (FO) is an osmotic process that, like reverse osmosis (RO), uses a semi-permeable membrane to effect separation of water from dissolved...
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  • Osmosis (also known as Treasure Trove) is a solitaire game played with a deck of 52 playing cards. The object, like many solitaire games, is to put the...
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    chemistry, electro-osmotic flow (EOF, hyphen optional; synonymous with electro-osmosis or electro-endosmosis) is the motion of liquid induced by an applied potential...
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    A reverse osmosis plant is a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place. Reverse osmosis is a common process to purify or desalinate...
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  • Osmosis is a French science fiction television series created by Audrey Fouché. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, was released on 29 March...
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  • Osmosis Jones: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2001 film Osmosis Jones. It was released on August 7, 2001 through Atlantic/Warner...
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    of distillation) or membrane-based methods (e.g. in the case of reverse osmosis).: 24  An estimate in 2018 found that "18,426 desalination plants are in...
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  • "She (Didn't Remember My Name)" is a song and the debut single by Osmosis. It is the English version of "Vado Via" by Drupi. The song peaked at number...
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  • The American live-action/animated 2001 film Osmosis Jones features a variety of fictional characters created by Marc Hyman. It followed up with American...
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    Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is a technique to separate a solvent (for example, fresh water) from a solution that is more concentrated (e.g. sea water)...
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  • Osmose Productions is a French independent record label created in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut, after he had spent three years running a small mail order company...
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    the measure of the tendency of a solution to take in its pure solvent by osmosis. Potential osmotic pressure is the maximum osmotic pressure that could...
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    passive and can be assisted by the movement of water into the roots via osmosis. Consequently, transpiration requires the plant to expend very little energy...
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  • Ozzy & Drix (category Osmosis Jones)
    American animated television series based on the 2001 film Osmosis Jones. It centers on Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones, a cheeky-chappy white blood cell, and Drix...
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    transport are simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, filtration, and/or osmosis. Passive transport follows Fick's first law. Diffusion is the net movement...
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  • measure of the tendency of water to move into one solution from another by osmosis. The higher the osmotic pressure of a solution, the more water tends to...
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    reverse electrodialysis (RED) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO). Both processes rely on osmosis with membranes. The key waste product is brackish water...
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    polymeric membrane that allows certain molecules or ions to pass through it by osmosis. The rate of passage depends on the pressure, concentration, and temperature...
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    roots to other parts of the plant in the transpiration stream. Diffusion, osmosis, and active transport and mass flow are all different ways transport can...
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    Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3CH2OH. It is...
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    among others. The discharge of desalination plants by seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO), are mainly characterized by presenting a salinity concentration...
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  • world, but almost all of new desalination plants currently use reverse osmosis due to much lower energy consumption. The plant has a series of spaces...
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    recycling. The Sorek desalination plant is the largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination facility in the world. By 2014, Israel's desalination programmes...
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    against a transmucosal osmotic pressure gradient. The standing gradient osmosis is the reabsorption of water against the osmotic gradient in the intestines...
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  • processes include reverse osmosis and membrane distillation, where membranes filter water from contaminants. As of 2014 reverse osmosis (RO) made up about 52%...
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