Assertion: mechanism | /r/HasProperty | represented in biology and chemistry texts
Facets:
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The mechanism responsible for driving osmosis has commonly been represented in biology and chemistry texts as either the dilution of water by solute (resulting in lower concentration of water on the higher solute concentration side of the membrane and therefore a diffusion of water along a concentration gradient) or by a solute's attraction to water (resulting in less free water on the higher solute concentration side of the membrane and therefore net movement of water toward the solute).