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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNO...

This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and
chemical physics  discussing in detail the European  American and Russian approaches to the
development of chemistry. Other key topics include the kinetics and non-linear thermodynamics
of chemical reactions and mathematical modeling  which have found new applications in the
theory of dynamical systems. The first observations of the periodicity of chemical reactions
were lost in the mist of time. In the second half of the 19th century  the phenomenon of
chemical periodicity was studied in relation to electrochemistry  solutions and colloids.
Discovered in the late 19th century  Liesegang rings are still enigmatic and remain attractive
for researchers. However  the discovery of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction marked the
successful culmination of the efforts to find a true chemical oscillatory reaction. The book
investigates chemical phenomena that were neglected in the past  but have been rediscovered 
placing them into a new conceptual framework. For example  it notes that William Bray  who
discovered the first oscillatory homogeneous reaction in 1921  was influenced by the first
bio-mathematicians who predicted chemical oscillations in homogeneous systems.

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