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Volume 10, Issue 6
20 July 1927
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Article| July 20 1927

THE KINETICS OF OSMOSIS

John H. Northrop
John H. Northrop
From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J.
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John H. Northrop
From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J.
Accepted: April 27 1927
Online ISSN: 1540-7748
Print ISSN: 0022-1295
Copyright, 1927, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
1927
J Gen Physiol (1927) 10 (6): 883–892.
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.10.6.883
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Accepted:
April 27 1927

It is shown that by combining the osmotic pressure and rate of diffusion laws an equation can be derived for the kinetics of osmosis.

The equation has been found to agree with experiments on the rate of osmosis for egg albumin and gelatin solutions with collodion membranes.

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