期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1974
卷号：71
期号：6
页码：2401-2403
DOI：10.1073/pnas.71.6.2401
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The commonly held view that the mechanism of osmotic pressure is a mass action effect at the semi-permeable membrane has recently been challenged by several authors who propose that solute molecules, in bombarding the free surface of the solution, subject the solvent to a negative hydrostatic pressure. Thus, they argue that osmotic pressure is a purely hydrostatic phenomenon. Experimental findings that they cite in support of their concept are here analyzed and shown to be consistent with the mechanism of a mass action effect at the semipermeable membrane.
