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>According to Wikipedia, most of these hydrocarbon chains are only about 20 carbons long, or less. The sodium/potassium pump appears to be much wider than that, so it should be clear in the image.
No, the diameter of the pump is much smaller than the gap. See pic.

>Staining gelatin gel is the example. Gelatin gel is mostly water, yet is stained by osmium tetroxide.
It being mostly water is not the reason it is stained by osmium tetroxide, because osmium tetroxide does not stain water, or charged water, or electrical double layers, by themselves. You keep ignoring this point because it proves you wrong.

>No, I don't bring them up because it's very hard to find literature in which osmium tetroxide stains anything relevant to this discussion.
Osmium tetroxide is a very common stain for electron microscopy. It's not because it's "hard," it's because such examples do not exist because osmium tetroxide cannot stain water.