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The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction

Hey guys, first video in a while! I hope you like it, let me know if you see any mistakes. It took me forever to finish this project!


Ill add your names and everything in the final version of the video, which will be posted tomorrow.

The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction

Comments

A lot of people seemed to actually like them, ha

Nile Red

Yeah, i know what you mean!

Nile Red

Right on!

Thor Correia

Those bubbles in the "bad" runs were fucking awesome. The rapid sort of chaotic wave patterns were great to watch. Same with the huge scale runs at the end.

Awesome! Science is art!

Michael Aichlmayr

Did you try to prevent nucleation of the bubbles? (e.g. by using new and very clean glassware)

RTT12

I really liked the contrast with the bubbles though, that was very nice :D

Can we have 10 hours of these reactions in HD to put as background for my other exmeriments? :)

Stanislav G.

Congrats! I have dreamt of performing this reaction, but had too much problems with gathering and keeping the ingredients.

Very nice video. Thanks. The formula for malonic acid is better written as CH2(COOH)2, a methylene group with a carboxylic acid group on each side.

mrkhrdr@gmail.com

I have only one thing to say:.. Nile this experiment made me proud, that I'm supporting you! A real nice video!

Alf-Marius Dahl Bysveen

Very cool and well explained too I think.

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

5:40 "malonic" acid not maloni.

Silviu T

Beautiful video! I hope you'll cover the other variations, im particularly interested in the cerium one. I love the videos where you just cover one reaction and explain the mechanism in detail i hope you'll make more in the future!

wow! Especially because I have produced the exact same patterns with a neural network years ago. Even the spirals, and the "chaotic" patterns. The neural network was quite simple, and I can get all these patterns by varying only one parameter. I think the the visible dynamics can be reduced to a few simple non-linear partial diff. equations.

Adam Rak

Very nice.

Aaron Aitken

I love the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, similar patterns turn up on watermelons infected by the Watermelon mosaic virus for some reason. I recently saw it occur on some guy's fence as well <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/fences/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/fences/</a>

Simon the Delusional

Way cool! I love these oscillating reactions. From your readings, do bubble-free variants last for more cycles due to not having the irreversible loss of CO and CO2? One issue: @5:34 Beaker B says maloni acid instead of malonic acid.

The blue flashes you mention are indeed weird, but I think they look super awesome and make the entire reaction even more beautiful, because they seem so random and different in appearance. They are the same color, but make a good contrast from a shape point of view.

Colin Ries

Very cool! I love oscillating reactions!


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