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Chemical oscillators that behave like a double pendulum

Oscillating chemical reactions such as BZ-reaction or chemical clock typically result in sequential systematic changes, most notable of which is arguably coloring. Though underlying mechanism can be extremely complicated, we always expect the same sequenced cycling set of properties. For iodine clock it's always will be

... dark-blue > colorless > dark-blue > colorless ...

colors that we observe. Just like ordinary pendulum. But are there oscillating chemical reactions with the non-linear outcome and "chaotic" sequences for each cycle, e.g. behaving like a double pendulum?

And if such systems do exist, can we also just use similar mathematical apparatus like a system of differential equations used for a double pendulum to describe such behavior?

Chemical oscillators that behave like double pendulum

Oscillating chemical reactions such as BZ-reaction or chemical clock typically result in sequential systematic changes, most notable of which is arguably coloring. Though underlying mechanism can be extremely complicated, we always expect the same sequenced cycling set of properties. For iodine clock it's always will be

... dark-blue > colorless > dark-blue > colorless ...

colors that we observe. Just like ordinary pendulum. But are there oscillating chemical reactions with the non-linear outcome and "chaotic" sequences for each cycle, e.g. behaving like a double pendulum?

Chemical oscillators that behave like a double pendulum

Oscillating chemical reactions such as BZ-reaction or chemical clock typically result in sequential systematic changes, most notable of which is arguably coloring. Though underlying mechanism can be extremely complicated, we always expect the same sequenced cycling set of properties. For iodine clock it's always will be

... dark-blue > colorless > dark-blue > colorless ...

colors that we observe. Just like ordinary pendulum. But are there oscillating chemical reactions with the non-linear outcome and "chaotic" sequences for each cycle, e.g. behaving like a double pendulum?

And if such systems do exist, can we also just use similar mathematical apparatus like a system of differential equations used for a double pendulum to describe such behavior?

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Chemical oscillators that behave like double pendulum

Oscillating chemical reactions such as BZ-reaction or chemical clock typically result in sequential systematic changes, most notable of which is arguably coloring. Though underlying mechanism can be extremely complicated, we always expect the same sequenced cycling set of properties. For iodine clock it's always will be

... dark-blue > colorless > dark-blue > colorless ...

colors that we observe. Just like ordinary pendulum. But are there oscillating chemical reactions with the non-linear outcome and "chaotic" sequences for each cycle, e.g. behaving like a double pendulum?