What does osmose mean or do?

Answer 1

I think you mean OSMOSIS?

1) go to www.google.com
2) enter osmosis in the text box
3) click the search button
4) read

Answer 2

To osmose is to undergo osmosis. A fluid can be said to osmose through a barrier.

Answer 3

Osmosis refers to the process of ions passing through a permeable membrane. I'm not aware of "osmosis" having a verb form, but if it did, I guess "osmose" would be it.

Answer 4

Beats me!! I never heard of osmose. I HAVE heard of osmosis though... why don't you look it up!!

Answer 5

I think you mean osmosis which is the movement of a strong fluid to a weaker one through a semi-permeable membrane.

First the definition of osmosis:

Semi-permeable membranes are very thin layers of material (cell membranes are semi-permeable) which allow some things to pass through them but prevent other things from passing through.

Cell membranes will allow small molecules like Oxygen, water, Carbon Dioxide, Ammonia, Glucose, amino-acids, etc. to pass through. Cell membranes will not allow larger molecules like Sucrose, Starch, protein, etc. to pass through.

A region of high concentration of water is either a very dilute solution of something like sucrose or pure water. In each case there is a lot of water: there is a high concentration of water.

Some teachers use the definition which starts "Osmosis is the passage of water from a dilute solution to a......" this means exactly the same as the definition I have given.

A region of low concentration of water is a concentrated solution of something like sucrose. In this case there is much less water.

So you could use the definition "Osmosis is the passage of water from a dilute solution through a semi-permeable membrane to a more concentrated solution.