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Transport in Plants
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Graham's law is correlated with

  • diffusion

  • osmoregulation

  • osmosis

  • absorption

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diffusion

Graham's law of effusion (also called Graham's law of diffusion) was formulated by Scottish physical chemist Thomas Graham in 1848. Graham found experimentally that the rate of effusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of the mass of its particles.

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