| 单词 | reverse osmosis |
| 释义 | reverse osmosis (once / 909178 pages) n WORD FAMILY reverse osmosis USAGE EXAMPLESThat process, called reverse osmosis, yields a liquid called brine consisting of a high concentration of naturally occurring minerals that must be disposed. Wall Street Journal(Nov 03, 2016) Desalitech pulled about 4,000 gallons of water from the river and treated it in one of its reverse osmosis systems. Washington Times(Sep 16, 2016) It requires much less energy than reverse osmosis and will potentially be a sustainable and cost-saving technology. Nature(Aug 30, 2016) n (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 Hyper osmosis (biology, chemistry) diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal |
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