Is the the process of reverse osmosis similar to the process of diffusion?
“Diffusion” is a SCIENTIFIC term that describes how particles naturally tend to spread out into all the available space. Four examples: (1) If you spray perfume in one corner of a room, after an hour or two, that perfume can be detected anywhere the room because the perfume molecules spread out to fill the entire room. (2) If you put a drop of water-soluble dye into a container of water (or a drop of oil-soluble dye into a container of oil), the dye molecules won’t just fall to the bottom of the container and stay there, they diffuse throughout the container. (3) If you drop a tea bag into a container of water, the taste, smell and flavour of the tea will diffuse throughout the water. (4) If you wear “the patch” to quit smoking, molecules of the drug in the patch diffuse into your body (the drug molecules are small enough to pass through your skin). “Osmosis” is a SCIENTIFIC term that describes the natural movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of low concentra
