What is Osmosis explain in 10 lines
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Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.
It may also be used to describe a physical process in which any solvent moves across a selectively permeable membrane (permeable to the solvent, but not the solute) separating two solutions of different concentrations.
Osmosis can be made to dowork.
Osmotic pressure is defined as the external pressure required to be applied so that there is no net movement of solvent across the membrane.
Osmotic pressure is a colligative property, meaning that the osmotic pressure depends on the molar concentration of the solute but not on its identity.
Osmosis is a vital process in biological systems, as biological membranes are semipermeable.
In general, these membranes are impermeable to large and polar molecules, such as ions, proteins, and polysaccharides, while being permeable to non-polar or hydrophobic molecules like lipids as well as to small molecules like oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and nitric oxide.
Permeability depends on solubility, charge, or chemistry, as well as solute size
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It is derived from two Greek words osmos which means to push.
The spontaneous flow of solvent particles through semipermeable membrane from a pure solvent to the solution .