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Osmotic Pressure

"Osmotic Pressure" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The pressure required to prevent the passage of solvent through a semipermeable membrane that separates a pure solvent from a solution of the solvent and solute or that separates different concentrations of a solution. It is proportional to the osmolality of the solution.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Osmotic Pressure" by people in this website by year, and whether "Osmotic Pressure" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1996 and 1997 and 1999 and 2002 and 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2008 and 2012 and 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2016 and 2018
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