RO

From: Heggood@aol.com
Date: Thu Jan 09 1997 - 05:36:11 PST


Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:36:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Heggood@aol.com
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg131$foo@default>
Subject: RO

As a person with a strong curiosity about how things work, I have been
intrigued
by the term 'Reverse Osmosis'.

As I recall, osmosis is the process by which two liquids separated by a semi-
permeable membrane either give up or acquire fluid from/to the other
depending
on the concentration of impurities in solution. This is a natural phenomen
which
occurs in nature. How is the process reversed and in doing so result in
water
free of contaniments?

Thanks in avance to someone who has the answer.
-steve-



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