American journal of physics
By Kramer, Eric M. and R. Myers,David
“Five popular misconceptions about osmosis”
Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers
80
2012
Five popular misconceptions about osmosis
Type: Empirical
Data collection method:
Number of subjects, range: Other or unknown
Grade and age of subjects: Adult — over 18 years
- The phenomenology of osmosis is the same for gases, liquids, and supercritical fluids.
- Osmosis does not depend on an attractive force between solute and solvent.
- Osmosis can drive solvent from a lower to a higher solvent concentration compartment.
- The osmotic pressure cannot be interpreted as the partial pressure of the solute.
- The semipermeable membrane exerts the force that drives the solvent flow.