Belousov-Zhabotinsky - a remarkable chemical reaction

Belousov-Zhabotinsky - a remarkable chemical reaction


Example of a chaotic process (extreme sensitivity to initial conditions) - I suspect decision
making in the brain shares this sensitivity to initial conditions
History of the BZ reaction, Brief history - Zhabotinsky obit

An example of uniqueness, with pictures

At wikipedia, Mechanism, Chemical processes, A nonlinear dynamics lab

One dimensional reaction (YouTube)

BZ reaction as an example of a solution to a differential equation

Chemical waves of BZ reaction - picture gallery

Discussion of reaction - with pictures

Sensors for following physical properties of the reaction

Chemical oscillatory - experiment plus video

Simulating BZ with cellular automata

Spreadsheet simulation

The Lotka-Volterra equation - more 1
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