william@lorien.newcastle.ac.uk (William Coyne) (11/01/90)
Thanks for all the replies to my earlier question Thanks for your reply. | * | |^^^^^^^* | |^^^^^^^^*^^^^^^^^| | * | | * | | *^^^^^^^^| high and lo | high * lo | | ? * ? | refer to the | * | | * | salt conc. ------------------ ---------------- BEFORE AFTER Suppose on the LHS there were 0.2 moles of salt ions and 0.8 moles of water molecules, and on the RHS there were 0.1 mole of salt ions and 0.9 moles of water molecules. Would osmosis eventually result in 0.85 moles of water on either side? Or would the salt ions form temporary bonds (eg hydrogen bonds, dipole-dipole bonds etc) with the water molecules, so reducing the average number of molecules available for osmosis at any time, resulting in slightly more than 0.85 moles of water in the LHS? Replies can be sent by email to - JANET: W.P.Coyne@uk.ac.newcastle UUCP : ...!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!W.P.Coyne ARPA : W.P.Coyne%newcastle.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk