Purifying
Your Water:
A Reverse
Osmosis
Primer
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Maximum Yield USA | June 2016
by Philip McIntosh
In a nut shell, osmosis
describes “the diffusion
of water across a
selectively permeable
membrane from a
region of low-solute
concentration to a
region of high-solute
concentration.” Outside
of the nut shell, things get
a little more complicated
than that. The following
article outlines what the R
and the O refer to when it
comes to water quality.