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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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