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... means you get juicier stuff.   Yep, it's plain old osmosis, lower concentration to higher through a semipermeable membrane.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2020 - 12:20pm - 0 attachments

So the kids fell asleep late last night after finally crashing from their Halloween sugar high. There are smashed pumpkins out on the street, toilet paper in the trees, and still 3 to 5 pounds of candy remaining per child. The pumpkins and toilet paper ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Oct 31 2017 - 1:22pm - 0 attachments

... That is from egg to tadpole to adult frog? There's osmosis. Well okay, water flows naturally from low salt concentration to a high ... environment. If frogs have the ability to suppress this osmosis thing, we can probably see adult frogs thriving in salt water. Upon ...

Blog Post - Johann Cruz - Aug 14 2016 - 7:53pm - 0 attachments

... and/or use of a physical barrier such as a reverse osmosis filtration membrane. Using a combination of biodegradation, removal, ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 15 2015 - 10:00am - 0 attachments

... filters it through sand and carbon and then reverse osmosis, a pressure-based process commonly used to separate salt from seawater. ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Apr 22 2015 - 8:30am - 0 attachments

... Also, membrane filtration with nanofiltration or reverse osmosis membranes, which can remove the contaminating substances, is not yet ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2015 - 5:59pm - 0 attachments

... the method of power generation called pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), in which two streams of different salinity are mixed to produce energy. A pressure retarded osmosis system of this kind takes in river water and seawater on either side of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 8:56am - 0 attachments

... that can pass through the wall of a living cell through osmosis), can affect microbial growth apart from the presence of lipids. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 12:38am - 0 attachments

... shown that a wastewater treatment process called forward osmosis in combination with a fuel cell can generate power. Nicolau's team ... urine and shower wastewater and processed it using forward osmosis, a way to filter contaminants from urea, a major component of urine, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 10:46am - 0 attachments

... which combines their "proprietary hydrostatic reverse osmosis with an inverted ice filtration system" and that allowed them to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 11:30pm - 0 attachments