Osmotic Pressure
An Osmotic Pressure is a pressure that is a minimum to present a solution's inward flow of its pure solvent across a semipermeable membrane.
- See: Osmosis, Pressure, Solution (Chemistry), Blood Pressure, Semipermeable Membrane, Osmoregulation.
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2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/osmotic_pressure Retrieved:2022-10-22.
- 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 a 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.
- 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.