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VAN'T HOFF imagines that a substance dissolved in a fluid medium behaves as if it were in a vacuum, and so exerts on the walls of the containing vessel a pressure which is precisely that which it would exert were the solvent imagined removed and the dissolved substance imagined present in a gaseous form.
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MARTIN, G. On van't Hoff's Law of Osmotic Pressure. Nature 70, 531–532 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070531b0
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