Question

Give any 5 examples of osmosis??

Answer 1

Osmosis is a special type of diffusion across a membrane that separates solutions with different concentrations of solutes.

The oldest is salting food to draw out its water for food preservation.

Dialysis is a medical use of osmosis.

Plant roots transport polar nutrients in solution in the soil into root cells, so draw water in by osmosis. This is how they generate root pressure.

Water purification by desalination & reverse osmosis. They make drinking water from seawater. Rain water collected from storm sewers is purified for nonpotable industrial uses or irrigation. Purified water for labs and for cleaning without detergents is produced by a reverse osmosis treatment

Some maple syrup manufacturers use reverse osmosis to concentrate the sap instead of boiling the water off.
They can make concentrated fruit juice this way or evaporated milk also.