By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Fri, 2007-09-21 13:20
In 1784 the French priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet put a pig’s bladder filled with wine in a barrel of water. To his surprise, the bladder swelled and finally burst. The osmotic energy was converted into an increase in pressure. The Dutch Nobel Prize winner (1902) Van ‘t Hoff derived the formula for calculating the osmotic pressure П.
Read full story
