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A new halogen-free chemical oscillator: the reaction between permanganate ion and ninhydrin in a continuously stirred tank reactor

✍ Scribed by Ľudovít Treindl; Arpád Nagy


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
196 KB
Volume
138
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis


The reaction between permanganate ion and ninhydrin in the presence of phosphoric acid in aqueous solution shows sustained oscillations in a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR). It exhibits a kinetic bistability between an oscillatory and a stationary state. Our new oscillating system seems to be a second permanganate chemical oscillator, thus broadening the small group of nonhalogen-based chemical oscillators.