semipermeable in English

adjective
1
(of a material or membrane) allowing certain substances to pass through it but not others, especially allowing the passage of a solvent but not of certain solutes.
In dialysis a solution is passed over a semipermeable membrane, allowing solutes up to a certain size (but not larger molecules) to diffuse across the membrane to a second solution.

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1. The Cell membrane is semipermeable—that is, some substances can pass through it but others cannot

2. Butanol can diffuse into extractant phase from the fermentation broth indirectly through the semipermeable membrane, thus greatly reducing the toxicity of organic extractants to the microbial cells

3. A group of phospholipids (consisting of a phosphate head and two fatty acid tails) arranged into a double layer, the phospholipid bilayer is a semipermeable membrane that is very specific in its permeability.

4. Capillaries form a network throughout the body and are the functional unit of general circulation. Capillary walls are semipermeable and allow passage of O2, glucose and other nutrients from the blood into the cells, and waste products (CO2, NH3) into the blood to …