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Definition of Osmose
1. n. The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.
Definition of Osmose
1. Verb. (intransitive) To diffuse by osmosis. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to diffuse by osmosis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Osmose
1. to undergo osmosis [v -MOSED, -MOSING, -MOSES]
Medical Definition of Osmose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmose
Literary usage of Osmose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Professor Jolly, of Heidelberg, has examined the osmose of water and saline ...
This is, in fact, the true osmose, and depends essentially on the action of ..."
2. Elements of Inorganic Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science by Thomas Graham (1866)
"The moderate positive osmose of sulphate of potash is converted into a very
sensible negative osmose by the presence of the merest trace of a strong acid, ..."
3. Physical Chemistry of Vital Phenomena: For Students and Investigators in the by Jesse Francis McClendon (1917)
"The membranes showing negative osmose are very leaky membranes with pore diameters
of about 0.2 microns. No osmotic effects were observed with MgCl2 ..."
4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1854)
"osmose was considered as depending upon such secondary results of combination ;
that is, upon the large number or voluminous proportions of the water ..."
5. Elements of Chemical Physics by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1873)
"The flow of water through the membrane is termed osmose, and the unknown power
... The conditions of osmose appear to be, that the liquids are capable of ..."
6. A Text-book of Chemistry: A Modern and Systematic Explanation of the by Le Roy C[lark] Cooley (1869)
"Gases also mix by diffusion and osmose« 1. The diffusion of liquids. ... osmose of
liquids.—A. thin membrane or porous substance will not prevent liquids ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"The nature and modus operandi of the chemical action producing osmose remains still
... Salts and other substances, capable of determining a large osmose, ..."
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