I fail to recognise how the validity of the thermodynamic basis of the law of osmotic pressure can be shaken; and though the idea of ionic dissociation in solutions is an additional hypothesis ...

THE polysacoharide dextran is widely used for expanding the plasma volume or augmenting the colloid osmotic pressure of patients in whom the total circulating protein is reduced. No direct ...

Osmosis is the diffusion close diffusionThe random movement of a substance from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration. of water molecules from a dilute solution (high ...

In reverse osmosis, an applied pressure is used to overcome osmotic pressure, a colligative property, that is driven by chemical potential differences of the solvent, a thermodynamic parameter.