Membrane in example sentence

In the first step in this process we pressurize the water and pass it through a reverse osmosis membrane: a thin, permeable plastic membrane that allows water molecules to pass through but traps and retains the salts, the viruses and the organic chemicals that might be present in the wastewater.

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As we zoom in on one of these purple neurons, we see that its outer membrane is studded with microscopic pores.

In its membrane, or its boundary, it contains little proteins that indeed can convert light into electricity.

And in this particular example, what I took is some membrane molecules, mixed those together in the right environment, and within seconds it forms these rather complex and beautiful structures here.

This structure, then, can organize the formation of a membrane boundary around itself, so it can make a body of liquid molecules around itself, and that's shown in green here on this micrograph.

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