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  • 61Reverse Osmosis A Cappella — Reverse Osmosis is a sixteen person mixed a cappella group at the University of Southern California founded in January 2001. Reverse Osmosis (RO) routinely performs on the USC campus, but has also toured the East and West Coast, performing in… …

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  • 62Reverse osmosis plant — A reverse osmosis plant is a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place. An average modern reverse osmosis plant needs six kilowatt hours of electricity to desalinate one cubic metre of water.Fact|date=August 2007 The… …

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  • 63Electro-osmosis — In electrochemistry, physics and vascular plant biology, electro osmosis, also called electroendosmosis, is the motion of polar liquid through a membrane or other porous structure (generally, along charged surfaces of any shape and also through… …

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  • 64Social Osmosis — is the indirect infusion of social/cultural knowledge. Effectively, social content is diffused, and by happenstance authentic experience is displaced by degrees of mediated separation before a subject acquires knowledge of a social phenomenon.… …

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  • 65Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit — A Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit (ROWPU) is a portable, self contained water treatment plant. Designed for military use, it can provide potable water from nearly any water source. There are many model ROWPUs in use by the United States… …

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  • 66Standing gradient osmosis — Water absorption at the colon typically proceeds against a transmucosal osmotic pressure gradient. The standing gradient osmosis is a term used to describe the reabsorption of water against the osmotic gradiet in the intestines. This hypertonic… …

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  • 67Pressure retarded osmosis — (PRO) is the salinity gradient energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water. In PRO, the water potential between fresh water and sea water corresponds to a pressure of 26 bars. This pressure is… …

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  • 68reverse osmosis — noun (chemistry) a method of producing pure water; a solvent passes through a semipermeable membrane in a direction opposite to that for natural osmosis when it is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure greater than the osmotic pressure • Topics:… …

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  • 69reverse osmosis — noun Chemistry a process by which a solvent passes through a porous membrane in the direction opposite to that for natural osmosis when subjected to a hydrostatic pressure greater than the osmotic pressure …

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  • 70reverse osmosis — /rəvɜs ɒzˈmoʊsəs/ (say ruhvers oz mohsuhs) noun a water purifying technique by which a fluid moves under pressure through a membrane from a high solute concentration to a lesser concentration. Compare osmosis …