osmosis
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Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they wish instil.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
Whether by osmosis or genetics or possibly black magic, Carpenter clearly absorbed his powers from his father, Dr. Howard Carpenter, a classically trained violinist and composer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
People saw Manning not as a player with three collegiate starts to his name, but one who’d absorbed the expertise of uncles Peyton and Eli via osmosis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
Microfiltration, reverse osmosis, ultraviolet radiation, and abracadabra—they turned the county’s last day of raw sewage into nearly fifty thousand gallons of drinkable water.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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