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Definition of Osmosing
1. osmose [v] - See also: osmose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmosing
Literary usage of Osmosing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beet-sugar Manufacture and Refining by Lewis Sharpe Ware (1907)
"This increase is regular, and a sudden change is possible only through the rupture
of the osmosing medium, which rarely occurs. ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1868)
"But we affirm that in all these cases a subordinate part is performed by the
osmosing condition of the membranes and fluids, a part sufficiently important ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"A molasses with a composition of 50 per cent. of sugar and 15 per cent. of ash
will, by osmosing, lose about 10 parts of sugar and 10 parts of salts; ..."
4. The American Chemist by Charles Frederick Chandler (1873)
"It is needless to say, that the osmosing of fourths has to be more through than
that of thirds. According to the mode of calculation employed by M. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"The articular cartilage appears to be such an one, without blood-vessels it is
bathed by fluid ex- osmosing from the vessels beneath its attached surface, ..."
6. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"The excrete di- osmosing substances formed in a tissue-cell move away from a
certain centre of repulsion towards the excreting surface or region, ..."
7. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"They appear to be absorbed because they are present in the particular soil in
which the plant happens to be growing, and have the power of osmosing through ..."
8. Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"Still, he was the more mobile of the two, as Linda was swaddled in smart- casts
that both immobilized her and massaged her, all the while osmosing ..."
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