Sykes, Walter J. (Walter John), 1842-1906, Ling, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1861-1937 · London, C. Griffin and Company, limited · leaf 278
sly hard and rigid membrane becomes soft and pliable cwing to the penetration of water into its substance ; but the water does not pass through the bladder, it simply wTets it. This peculiar property, exhibited by animal and vegetable membranes, of allowing liquids to permeate, without actually… … risen considerably. The reason for this is that the Fig. 30a. — Osmotic Apparatus. water outside the tube permeates the membrane, and as the molecules of the salt present in the solution within the tube have a great attraction for the water molecules in the membrane, they draw them from the…
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