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Reverse osmosis

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-005499

The application of pressure to stop or reverse the transport of solvent through a semipermeable membrane separating two solutions of different solute concentration.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-005499
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNASA Thesaurus; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoOsmosis; Isotropic membranes
TranslationsSpanish: ósmosis inversa
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005499",
  "term": "Reverse osmosis",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The application of pressure to stop or reverse the transport of solvent through a semipermeable membrane separating two solutions of different solute concentration.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "osmosis",
    "isotropic membranes"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NASA Thesaurus",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "ósmosis inversa"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/reverse-osmosis/"
}

Record 5,423 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.