semipermeable membrane

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semipermeable
adjective
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/ˌsem.iˈpɜː.mi.ə.bəl/us
/ˌsem.iˈpɝː.mi.ə.bəl/
Something, for example a cell membrane, that is semipermeable allows some liquids and gases to pass through it, but ...
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membrane
noun[C or U]
us
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/ˈmem.breɪn/
anatomy
a thin piece of skin that covers or connects parts of a person's or ...
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Another example of asemipermeablemembraneis dialysis tubing.
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Asemipermeablemembraneis necessary because it allows water through its membrane while preventing solutes from moving through its membrane.
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Asemipermeablemembraneis a thin layer of material that contains holes of various sizes, or pores.
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The interesting features of these particles were that they were enclosed in asemipermeablemembrane, like the typical cell membrane.
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In this system asemipermeablemembraneseparates two solutions of different concentration of the same solute.
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Cell membranes are essentially lipid bilayers which form asemipermeablemembrane.
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The idea of asemipermeablemembrane, a barrier that is permeable to solvent but impermeable to solute molecules was developed at about the same time.
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A material can be semipermeable, with the presence of asemipermeablemembrane.
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Hemodialysis removes wastes and water by circulating blood outside the body through an external filter, called a dialyzer, that contains asemipermeablemembrane.
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Such a concentration gradient across asemipermeablemembranesets up an osmotic flow for the water. 2.
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He also noted that a thin film of oil behaves as asemipermeablemembrane, precisely as predicted.
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The rate at which an analyte is exchanged across thesemipermeablemembraneis generally expressed as the analytes extraction efficiency.
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Although, liquid water will only move in response to such differences in osmotic potential if asemipermeablemembraneexists between the zones of high and low osmotic potential.
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Since regions of soil are usually not divided by asemipermeablemembrane, the osmotic potential typically has a negligible influence on the mass movement of water in soils.
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In peritoneal dialysis, wastes and water are removed from the blood inside the body using the "peritoneal membrane" of the peritoneum as a naturalsemipermeablemembrane.
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He was the developer of high specification activated charcoal for the treatment of acute poisoning by establishing an intestinal dialysis using the gut wall as asemipermeablemembrane.
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Further improvement of the dialytrode concept resulted in the invention of the hollow fiber, a tubularsemipermeablemembranewith a diameter of 200-300m, in 1974.
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These are semipermeable membranes manufactured principally for use in water purification or desalination systems.
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Diffusion of crude natural gas through special semipermeable membranes and other barriers is another method to recover and purify helium.
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