Tag: van't Hoff

Osmotic Pressure

I must have been feeling “osmotic pressure” since I missed posting for the last month. We all know that that excuse is as lame as learning by osmosis from a book under your pillow. Now, let’s review osmotic pressure. Osmotic pressure is the minimum pressure required to stop solvent from flowing through a membrane into ….  Read More

Endosmometer by Dutrochet

Nobel Lecture by Jacobus H. van’t Hoff

van’t Hoff Nobel prize for his work with osmotic pressure. The theory of Osmosis is not the theory of osmotic pressure.. See Atkins applied pressure to a vessel of water raises the vapor pressure..