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What happens to a solute's potential energy during diffusion?
I was thinking, if you have a large amount of water, with an uneven solute concentration, diffusion will lead to an even concentration of solute throughout the solution.
Intuitively,that would mean ...
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How do concentrations of different solutes across a cell membrane affect whether water leaves or enters the cell?
I know from class that water travels to where the solute concentration is higher. I have no problem visualizing it if it's just "salt." What if there are multiple types of solutes? For ...
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What is the relation of water potential with gibbs free energy? [closed]
In my high school textbook, they have stated that diffusion is a process in which water moves along a free energy gradient. I cannot understand how water potential may be related to the Gibbs free ...
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real meaning of osmotic and turgor pressures
I am a high school student and I am very confused in how we define osmotic pressure? Osmotic pressure is defined as the pressure required to stop the diffusion of solvent into a solution by applying ...
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Is the solution isotonic, hypertonic, or hypotonic?
The problem is shown below. I don't understand how can the tonicity of a solution be determined if the solution has multiple solutes dissolved in it.
Do I take the total sum of the mass of solutes ...
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Why does water diffuse from a lower solute concentration to a higher one?
I'm studying biology and this came up in the context of passive transport. I understand why, in general a gas moves down a concentration gradient (the random movement of gas particles and probability)....
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