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What is the noun for osmosing?

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osmosis
  1. The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.
  2. Picking up knowledge accidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The company has added reverse osmosis and oxygenation systems to its growing stable of Integrated Water Management solutions.”
      “Reverse osmosis is a process for desalting water that uses membranes that are permeable to water but essentially impermeable to salt.”
      “Tertiary treatment is a combination of treatments or advanced methods such as distillation, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, and the like.”
osmosensor
  1. (biochemistry) Any of several classes of organic compound that undergo transitions between "off" and "on" conformations in response to changes in extracellular water activity (direct osmosensing) or resulting changes in cell structure (indirect osmosensing).
osmogene
  1. An apparatus, consisting of a number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis. It is used especially in sugar refining to remove potassium salts from the molasses.
osmolarity
  1. (chemistry) The osmotic concentration of a solution, normally expressed as osmoles of solute per litre of solution.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In these osmotic experiments pressure P was varied using a sucrose solution of defined osmolarity.”
      “We measured effects of dietary secondary compounds on voluntary water consumption, urine volume and urine osmolarity.”
      “Total osmolarity, and final pH of all solutions, was always verified to ensure consistency.”
osmosensing
  1. (biology) The regulation of cell turgor in response to changes in the osmolarity of the external environment.
osmosignaling
osmotrophy
  1. (biology) The movement of dissolved nutrients by means of osmosis
osmole
  1. (chemistry) A unit of measurement, a mole of an osmotically active compound.
osmosensitivity
  1. (neurology) An organism's degree of sensitivity to osmotic gradients
osmosignalling
  1. Alternative form of osmosignaling
osmosensation
  1. (neurology) The sensory perception of osmotic pressure
osmol
  1. Alternative form of osmole
osmosensors
  1. plural of osmosensor
osmolarities
  1. plural of osmolarity
osmogenes
  1. plural of osmogene
osmoses
osmoles
  1. plural of osmole
osmols
  1. plural of osmol
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