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Porous

porous

full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. The veins of porous earth.

Origin: Cf. F. Poreux. See Pore.


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Re: Porous potatoes - Osmosis

hi!... i understand that water moves from the potatoe and into the high soloute concentration via osmosis, but is there any salt in the potatoe? if so does it move in or out via diffusion or facilitated diffusion? thanks!

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by wintersong
Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:41 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Porous potatoes - Osmosis
Replies: 7
Views: 1580

Re: Important unknown nanotech within humans

... structure,infact its obvious even to a child it is silica aerogel that is in the morgellons patient. the rivers of silicone are clearly highly porous identical the an aerogel,no other form of silicone is like this!,how no one has noticed this silicone is an aerogel is beyond my understanding! ...

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by vincio
Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:14 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Important unknown nanotech within humans
Replies: 28
Views: 6294

Re: Porous potatoes - Osmosis

give us your hypothesis and experimental design

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by JorgeLobo
Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:21 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Porous potatoes - Osmosis
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Views: 1580

Porous potatoes - Osmosis

I was hoping someone would help me with this. Okay so you have an experiment where you use potato cores with NaCl solutions of different concentraions ( 0%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%) What is likely to happen to the potato cells and what occurred within the cell? What would be the control measures for t...

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by cassiemhotmailcom
Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:41 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Porous potatoes - Osmosis
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Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

... and think that her allergies might be caused by a poor digetive tract. She may have 'leaky gut' syndrome; this is where the intestinal lining is porous and undigested foods leak out of the intestine and into the blood stream...not good and can cause your body to react with distention, pain, etc. ...

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by Jennuan
Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:18 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
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