reverse osmosis

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reverse 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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