Examples Of Osmosis: A Special Case Of Diffusion Of Water

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A special case of diffusion is known to be osmosis, which is known to be the diffusion of water through a water allowing or permeable membrane. Only water should be able to move through most oftenly. Therefore, the diffusion of one or more other substances along with water should not come in, such as solutes. An everyday example of osmosis is from the result of proned fingers. The bathtub that the person is showering is less concentrated in comparison with your body, thus, it is using osmosis to get into our body. Putting rice in water and boiling is pretty much the same, the water will move into the rice, causing it become cooked or swell. Relating to this, tonicity is the ability to of an extracellular solution to make water move either inside

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