Essentials of kinetics and thermodynamics for understanding chemical oscillations

This paper presents a numerical study of the reaction A  ↔  B in the presence of an intermediate and destabilizing step in its dynamics. After introducing a direct autocatalytic destabilizing process, namely quadratic autocatalysis ( X + Y → 2 Y ) and cubic autocatalysis ( X + 2 Y → 3 Y ), a thermod...

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