electro-osmosis
noun
the motion of a liquid through a membrane under the influence of an applied electric field.
electroosmosis,
-
a variation of
electro-osmosis.
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To do so, Quintana first built sidewalls for a trench, then removed the muck between them through a complex electroosmosis process of his own devising.
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