49,916 views
31 votes
31 votes
Defenition of osmosis in your own words

User Rupi
by
2.7k points

2 Answers

22 votes
22 votes

Answer:

Osmosis is the scientific process of transferring fluid between molecules. When molecules move in and out of a cell to achieve the same concentration of something, like salt, on both sides, then osmosis is happening. ... The fluid might go back and forth a few times until both solutions are equally concentrated.

User Jason Prawn
by
3.0k points
22 votes
22 votes

Answer:

Movement if water molecules from the region of higher concentration to the region of lower concentration, down a concentration gradient, through a partially permeable membrane, till it reaches equilibrium state.

User Nate Kimball
by
2.8k points