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Relation between dilution and osmotic pressure
The following question is taken from IAT 2024, an entrance test for research institutes in India at the high school level:
Which one of the following plots correctly describes the variation of ...
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Why one compartment in an osmotic container have different pressure?
I am reading about osmotic pressure and the derivation in Wikipedia, states:
Consider the system at the point when it has reached equilibrium. The condition for this is that the chemical potential of ...
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Is it appropriate to approximate solute particles in a dilute solution as an ideal gas?
I was studying osmosis and I came across the formula for osmotic pressure. I decided to see the derivation for osmotic pressure in a dilute solution. The derivation involved an equation involving the ...
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Is Gibbs energy change during osmosis positive? If so then why is it spontaneous?
For ideal solution, μA=μA* +RT
lnxA
ln function is an increasing function, means that the higher the xA the higher the μA......(1)
Now consider osmosis. From Atkins' Physical Chemistry Ninth ...
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What happens when a semipermeable membrane allows only one solute to pass through?
I'm essentially a medical student where we deal a lot with osmosis. But when we are taught, it is done generally with only a single solute in consideration.
What if two different solutes are used on ...
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How can semi-permeable membrane be so smart?
According to the definition, a semi-permeable membrane is a membrane that allows only solvent molecules to pass through it; solute molecules are blocked. Solvent molecules flow from the membrane side ...
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How to create a simple do-it-yourself procedure to measure diffusion?
While I am not asking the question here, a recent question concerning osmosis at the Bio SE caught my interest. In a nutshell that question was, given isotonic solutions of sugar inside and outside an ...
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