define osmotic pressure
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THE PRESSURE CAUSED BY A SOLUTION WHILE PASSING THROUGH A SEMIPERMEABLE MEMBRANE AND IS ALSO THE PRESSURE WHICH DOES NOT LET THE SOLUTION PASS BACK THROUGH THE MEMBRANE
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Osmotic Pressure is the minimum pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of its pure solvent across a semipermeable membrane. It is also defined as the measure of the tendency of a solution to take in pure solvent by osmosis. Potential osmotic pressure is the maximum osmotic pressure that could develop in a solution if it were separated from its pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane.
Osmosis occurs when two solutions containing different concentrations of solute are separated by a selectively permeable membrane. Solvent molecules pass preferentially through the membrane from the low-concentration solution to the solution with higher solute concentration. The transfer of solvent molecules will continue until equilibrium is attained.
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