Michael Leunig

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Australian Cartoonist

Raymond Loewy

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

American Designer

Virginia Postrel

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

American Writer

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

American Physicist

Hilary Mantel

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

English Writer

Alan Garner

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

English Novelist

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Welsh Actor

Rachel Brosnahan

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

American Actress

Theo James

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

English Actor

Kurt Vile

American Musician

Used mostly in biology and chemistry to describe a physical process.

Scientific Use

Osmosis always involves a membrane that only lets certain things pass through.

Membrane Requirement

Understand that osmosis describes movement from less to more concentrated areas.

Concentration Gradient

Used metaphorically to describe learning absorbed gradually, almost without effort.

Metaphorical Learning

Emphasizes learning or absorbing information without actively trying to.

Unconscious Absorption

Can refer to slowly adopting habits, customs or new cultures simply by being exposed to them.

Cultural Context

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 in the world today for people is inadequate access to clean drinking water. And the desalination process is one where we take out salts. We can use it for drinking and agriculture. Removing the salts from water -- particularly seawater -- through reverse osmosis is a critical technique

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 that a much more cost-effective and practical way of recycling wastewater is to turn treated wastewater into drinking water through a two-step process. In the first step in this process we pressurize the water and pass it through a reverse osmosis a thin, permeable plastic membrane

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 For some reason, there's no standard syllabus, there's no basic course. They just sort of give you your computer and then kick you out of the nest. You're supposed to learn this stuff -- how? Just by osmosis. Nobody ever sits down and tells you, "This is how it works."

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 One way to get around this problem is to remove salt from sea water with reverse osmosis, a process that separates water's ingredients by size. A membrane with pores bigger than water particles, but smaller than salt particles, only lets fresh water pass through,

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 Then, because it's saltier inside the tube than outside, water moves into the tube by osmosis. As what's called the primary secretion builds up in the bottom of the tube, water pressure pushes it up into the long straight part of the duct.

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 Nature does something much more elegant. And it's in every cell. Every red blood cell of your body right now has these hourglass-shaped pores called aquaporins. They actually export water molecules through. It's kind of a forward osmosis.

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 Then I found out, post exposure, that this plastic bag if I put it into a filthy puddle or a stream filled with coliforms and all sorts of disgusting stuff, that that filthy water will migrate through the wall of the bag by osmosis

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