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  2. Hygroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Deliquescent materials are sufficiently hygroscopic that they dissolve in the water they absorb, forming an aqueous solution. Hygroscopy is essential for many plant and animal species' attainment of hydration, nutrition, reproduction and/or seed dispersal .

  3. Efflorescence - Wikipedia

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    Primary efflorescence is named such, as it typically occurs during the initial cure of a cementitious product. It often occurs on masonry construction, particularly brick, as well as some firestop mortars, when water moving through a wall or other structure, or water being driven out as a result of the heat of hydration as cement stone is being formed, brings salts to the surface that are not ...

  4. Vacuole - Wikipedia

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    The contractile vacuole complex works periodically contracts to remove excess water and ions from the cell to balance water flow into the cell. [26] When the contractile vacuole is slowly taking water in, the contractile vacuole enlarges, this is called diastole and when it reaches its threshold, the central vacuole contracts then contracts ...

  5. Contractile vacuole - Wikipedia

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    The stage in which water flows into the CV is called diastole. The contraction of the contractile vacuole and the expulsion of water out of the cell is called systole. Water always flows first from outside the cell into the cytoplasm, and is only then moved from the cytoplasm into the contractile vacuole for expulsion. Species that possess a ...

  6. Cell (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The cell on the left is going through mitosis and its chromosomes have condensed. Cell nucleus: A cell's information center, the cell nucleus is the most conspicuous organelle found in a eukaryotic cell. It houses the cell's chromosomes, and is the place where almost all DNA replication and RNA synthesis (transcription) occur.

  7. Hygroscopic cycle - Wikipedia

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    The selection of hygroscopic salts have to provide the following strict criteria in order to be of interest of use in the hygroscopic cycle: Highly hygroscopic compounds, deliquescent materials; Less volatile than water (vapor pressure lower than water), with easily reversible desorption into water and steam in the boiler

  8. Talk:Hygroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Secondly, Dessication has very little to do with Deliquescence, in spite of how many deliquescent materials are use for dessication. Dessication is a process for removing water; Deliquescence is a property of certain molecules. Merging would just provide confusion to viewers of the encyclopedia. Ruff Bark away! 19:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

  9. Dynamic vapor sorption - Wikipedia

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    Water is typically supplied to the fuel cell by humidifying the gas feed stream. The level of hydration within the proton exchange membrane is vital to its performance: if the hydration level is too low, the polymers exhibit greatly reduced ionic conductivity ; [ 25 ] if hydration level is too high, excess water can flood the pores in the gas ...