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Improvements in the equation for calculating the contribution to osmotic potential of the separate solutes of water solutions
Author(s) -
Cochrane T. T.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.595510
Subject(s) - predictability , osmosis , minor (academic) , chemistry , thermodynamics , osmotic coefficient , statistical physics , mathematics , biological system , physics , aqueous solution , statistics , activity coefficient , biochemistry , membrane , political science , law , biology
A minor conceptual improvement, the elimination of an approximation and its revision in relativistic terms, has resulted in a twofold increase in the predictability of the equation for calculating the contribution to osmotic potential of the separate solutes of water solutions. The molecular model inherent to its formulation would provide unifying principles for visualizing water movements associated with solute concentration gradients in tissues.