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osmotic pressure

 
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–noun Physical Chemistry.
the force that a dissolved substance exerts on a semipermeable membrane, through which it cannot penetrate, when separated by it from pure solvent.
Origin:
1885–90
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osmotic pressure  
n.  The pressure exerted by the flow of water through a semipermeable membrane separating two solutions with different concentrations of solute.
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Main Entry: osmotic pressure
Function: noun
: the pressure produced by or associated with osmosis and dependent on molar concentration and absolute temperature: as a : the maximum pressure that develops in a solution separated from a solvent by a membrane permeable only to the solvent b : the pressure that must be applied to asolution to just prevent osmosis
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osmotic pressure n.
The pressure exerted by the flow of water through a semipermeable membrane separating two solutions with different concentrations of solute.

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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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