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Re: what is the reaction called that constantly changes between 3 colors?

Date: Mon Nov 27 14:39:57 2000
Posted By: John Pojman, Faculty, Chemistry, University of Southern Mississippi
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 974520771.Ch
Message:

You saw either the "Briggs-Rauscher" reaction or its close relative, the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

You can find further information in these sources:

Briggs, T. S.; Rauscher, W. C. "An Oscillating Iodine Clock Reaction,"J. Chem. Ed. 1973, 50, 496.

Epstein, I. R.; Pojman, J. A. An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics: Oscillations, Waves, Patterns and Chaos; Oxford University Press: New York, 1998.

Epstein, I. R.; Kustin, K.; De Kepper, P.; Orbán, M. "Oscillating Chemical Reactions,"Scientific American 1983, 248, 112-123.

Shakhashiri, B. Z. Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers. Volume 2; University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1985.

Pojman, J. A.; Craven, R.; Leard, D. "Oscillating Reactions and Traveling Waves in the Physical Chemistry Lab,"J. Chem. Ed. 1994, 71, 84-90.

The March issue of the Journal of Chemical Education in 1989.

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