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.
Introduction: Water movement in soils is quite simple and easy to understand in some ways and quite complex and difficult to grasp in others. An object that is free to move tends to move spontaneously from a state of higher potential energy to one of lower potential energy. So it is with water.