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Chemical Oscillation

One of the few known oscillating chemical reactions, it can generally repeat itself about 10 times before ending as a dark blue liquid smelling of iodine. It’s called the Briggs-Rauscher reaction, named after the two high school science teachers who discovered it in the 70’s by building off a Russian scientist’s work from the 50’s.

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ARTICLE [Briggs-Rauscher reaction] (Wikipedia)

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3 comments

  1. Zach Hale 24 January, 08 @ 8:30 pm

    That is beautiful. I’ve got to hook one of those up with self-cycling liquids so it never stops.

  2. Justin Ruckman 24 January, 08 @ 9:35 pm

    For some reason I knew this was right up your alley.

  3. Jeff 03 March, 08 @ 3:16 am

    Is there a way to keep adding heat or a catalyst so that the reaction keeps going?

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