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RE: The history and mystery of Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction: Did it violated 2nd law of Thermodynamics?
Great article! Never knew such beautiful reaction can exists! Is it the oscillation is caused by redox reaction? I remember back in school Cu2+ is blue Cu3+ is green? I might be wrong lol. But awesome work man.
The explanation for oscillation is not very easy actually. But to understand it in simple and enternaining way I have 2 videos foryou: 1 and 2. These are each 4 minutes long and simplified. IF you have any specific doubts, please do ask. It would be nice if you watch these videos. I have not focused on the chemistry itself in my article. The focus was to tell that there is no violation of 2nd law and this oscillation happens because of the intermediary states in the energy landscape. :) Yes the original reaction contains one electron redox catalyst. Ref