Rebirth of a Dead Belousov–Zhabotinsky Oscillator

Abstract

Long time behaviors of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction are experimentally analyzed in a closed reactor. The amplitude of the oscillation is suddenly damped after about 10 h. After about 5-20 h, the dead oscillator is suddenly restored with nearly the same amplitude as before it stopped its oscillation for certain values of the concentrations of sodium bromate and malonic acid (MA). With the other domains of the concentrations, the oscillator simply damps and never restores its oscillation. The phase diagram of the different types of damping behaviors as a function of the concentrations is obtained.