Why a Chest Tube is Placed. A chest tube is placed for a variety of reasons. One reason, as you mentioned, is to help the lung re-inflate when someone has a collapsed lung, also known as a pneumothorax. In that circumstance, a chest tube is inserted along the side of the ribs to allow the lung to reinflate.
A. Osmosis is the passive movement of water from an area high in water concentration, across a semi-permeable membrane, to an area low in water concentration.
So far, weâve only described the movement of solutes across membranes. However, water (the. solvent) also moves across cell membranes. The movement of water across a selectively permeable. membrane from a region where water is highly concentrated to a region where its concentration is. lower is known as osmosis. Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion, the diffusion of water. In osmosis water always moves by diffusion across a selectively permeable membrane from a. hypotonic solution (low solute concentration, high water conc.) to a hypertonic solution (high solute. concentration, low water conc.).