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What does osmotic pressure mean?

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Noun
  1. (physical chemistry) The hydrostatic pressure exerted by a solution across a semipermeable membrane from a pure solvent; the pressure needed to counteract osmosis.
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Another phenomenon connected with solutions, which has received much attention, is that of osmotic pressure.
Diarrhea may be the result of unabsorbed lithium in the large intestine pulling water into the lumen by osmotic pressure.
If a U-shaped glass tube were divided in two by a semipermeable membrane and filled with two solutions the osmotic pressure could be shown.
Individual cell osmotic pressure is measured using a picolitre osmometer.
The glucose osmotic pressure in solution with water is proportional to the glucose concentration in the outer solution.
It is a remarkable fact that plasmolytic research affords no evidence of any decrease in osmotic pressure.

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