TWO monographs dealing with the properties of solutions have recently been issued by the, Carnegie Institution of Washington. The first, entitled “Osmotic Pressure of Aqueous Solutions,” is a report ...

Attention may be directed to a paper by Prof. A. Findlay on osmotic pressure and the theory of solutions, which has recently been published in Scientia. It has sometimes been suggested that the ...

Osmotic systems offer versatility for delivering drugs with varied properties and dosage requirements. The design and development of controlled-release drug-delivery systems have been traditionally ...

In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...

Reverse osmosis is a process familiar to most plant operators. Push makeup water through the right kind of membrane with sufficient pressure (osmotic pressure) and you generate a stream with few ...