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Define Osmotic potential and Osmotic pressure

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Osmotic Potential: It is the potential of solution that makes water move from low solute concentration to high solute concentration across a semipermeable membrane.Pure water has zero potential, so for solutions the value will be always negative as they have less water because of the presence of solute.


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