Excess pressure required to maintain osmotic equilibrium between a solution and the pure solvent separated by a
membrane permeable only to the solvent;
where
is the
gas constant,
the
thermodynamic temperature and
the
amount concentration of individually moving solute molecules, different ions etc. regardless of their nature.
Source:
See also:
PAC, 1996, 68, 957
(Glossary of terms in quantities and units in Clinical Chemistry (IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations 1996))
on page 985
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
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