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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EXOSMOSE

Ex "os *mose `, n. Etym: [Exo +osmose: cf. F. ezosmose.] (Physics )

 

Defn: The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

 

Duden Dictionary

Exosmose

Ex os mo se Substantiv, feminin Chemie , die |Exosm o se |die Exosmose; Genitiv: der Exosmose, Plural: die Exosmosen griechisch-neulateinisch Osmose von Orten höherer zu Orten geringerer Konzentration