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Reverse Osmosis Technology

Reverse Osmosis is a sophisticated water purification process that was first successfully demonstrated on the UCLA campus by Professor Sydney Loeb in 1960. To understand reverse osmosis it is logical to first describe “osmosis”. Osmosis is a vital function performed by living cells and therefore this is the context in which it is explained. Through osmosis cells are nourished by allowing passage of small molecules like oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose and amino acids while larger molecules like starch and protein are not allowed.