Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction oscillatory dynamics

Although some of the fimdamental discoveries in nonlinear chemical dynamics were made at the beginning of the twentieth century and arguably even earlier, the field itself did not emerge until the mid-1960 s, when Zhabotinsky s development (1) of the oscillatory reaction discovered by Belousov (2) finally convinced a skeptical chemical community that periodic reactions were indeed compatible with the Second Law of Thermodynamics as well as all other known rules of chemistry and physics. Since the discovery of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, nonlinear chemical dynamics has grown rapidly in both breadth and depth (3). 

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