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A Description of Reverse Osmosis using Practical Kedem-Katchalsky Equations

A Kargol1

  • 1Department of Physics, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Mersin 10, Turkey.

Journal of Biological Physics
|January 25, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
MembraneReverse osmosisSolutionTransportTransport equations.

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