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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That is beautiful. I’ve got to hook one of those up with self-cycling liquids so it never stops.
For some reason I knew this was right up your alley.
Is there a way to keep adding heat or a catalyst so that the reaction keeps going?
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