Diffusion

The factor that determined the rate and direction of osmosis in the experiment was the amount of solute in the dialysis tube. This is shown through the amount of water that transferred into the dialysis tube as the sucrose concentration was raised. As the ratio from solute to water was heightened (as shown within the graph and data table), the amount of water that was transferred into the dialysis tube increased. From the data collected, it can be concluded that water and solute will move…

A membrane is defined as a thin sheet, film, or layer, which works as a selective barrier between two phases that can be liquid or gas.113 In other words, a membrane is an interface between two adjacent phases acting as a selective barrier, regulating the transport between the two components.114 Membranes have gained an important place in chemical technology and are used in a broad range of applications.115,116,117 The key property that is exploited is the ability of a membrane to control the…

Introduction: Centrifugation is a process used to separate or concentrate materials suspended in a liquid medium. It is a method used to separate molecules under the centrifugation field based on their sedimentation rate with the help of centrifugal force. It is also used to measure the physical properties of a molecule like molecular weight, density, shape, etc. If it is used for the separation of one type of materials from others is termed as preparative centrifugation and when used for…

Ethanol disrupts membranes by a number of methods. In particular what you must remember is, the size and fluidity of the membrane has a lot to do with the outside and inside environment. This environment consists of how much water, salts etc are in the cell versus out of the cell. Adding ethanol disrupts much of this. 1. Ethanol is permeable to cell membranes. Because of the nature of ethanol as a chemical is it able to get into the cell very easily. This disrupts the balance of the…

Catherine Delker Honors Chemistry – Yellow Blue Beaker Experiment Lab Report 8/20/15 Blue Bottle Experiment Problem: The purpose of this lab was to determine the oxidation rate of the Methylene blue solution when tested with varying amounts of solution. Background: The Blue Bottle Experiment is a classic demonstration of a Reversible oxidation-reduction reaction with an alkaline solution of glucose that acts as a reducing agent. It is known that, “Methylene blue speeds up the reaction,…

In this experiment, we set out to determine the osmolarity of a potato. In order to do this, we placed potato pieces in seven different solutions of varying sucrose molarity. First, we weighed each potato piece to obtain the initial weight, shown in Figure 1. Then, we split the pieces vertically before placing them in the cubs containing the sucrose solutions. In each cup was a solution of sucrose with a molarity ranging from 0.0M to 0.6M. After placing the potatoes in the cups, we allowed them…

Abstract: Using the PhysioEx.9.1 software, I ran Activity 4: Simulating Filtration lab to learn about the filtration of solutes in a membrane system. This experiment was conducted using four solutes: NaCl, urea, glucose, and powdered charcoal. The goal was to learn if any of these solutes passed through the three different dialysis membranes at varying pressures. Does increasing the pore size increase filtration rate? What effect will pressure have on the filtration rate? These are the…

Results Table 1 showed that oral administration of Diclofenac sodium at 150mg/kg.b.w. resulted in a significant increase in renal tumor necroses factor -α (TNF-α), nitric oxide (NO) and thiobarbaturic acid reactive substances (TBARS) compared to the normal control group (p< 0.01). Rat receiving extract of any of the two doses of cranberry extract used in this study (75 and 150mg/kg.b.w.) showed a significant decrease in renal TNF-α, NO and TBARS compared to the group that received Diclofenac…

[RO-System] Reverse Osmosis, known as RO system, is a technology that is used to remove a large majority of contaminant from water by pushing the water under pressure through a semi-permeable membrane. To understand the purpose and the process of Reverse Osmosis, should understand the natural Osmosis operation. Natural Osmosis: The phenomenon of osmosis occurs when pure water flows from a dilute saline solution through a membrane into a higher concentrated saline solution. (Example of osmosis…

3.5. Effect of surfactant Span80/Span85 (3:1) on Ni (II) extraction Span80/Span85 are playing an important parameter and determine to appropriate surfactants can be obtained through the stability of emulsion liquid membrane for Ni(II) extraction. Span 80/Span85 as nonionic surfactants. Figure (9).The study of the efficiency of the highest extractants and reached to 98.7% after studying the surfactant concentration of span 80/span85 (3:1), the surfactant ratio an important in extraction of Ni…