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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: maceng2 who wrote (22366)7/20/2008 1:01:47 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
A lot of people find that counter intuitive, just like the idea of partial pressures for mixed gases. The fact that a higher concentration of one gas in a mixture which has a total LOWER gauge pressure can diffuse through a membrane into a mixture having lower concentration of that molecule but HIGHER total gauge pressure baffles some people.