Nonequilibrium / nonlinear chemical oscillation in the virtual absence of gravity

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999adspr..23.2057f&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 23, Issue 12, p. 2057-2063.

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The Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reactions were used as typical examples of a nonlinear system far from equilibrium in connection with biological evolution. The virtual absence of gravity in the present work was given from the free-fall facility of Japan Microgravity Center (JAMIC) in Hokkaido. The reaction solution of BZ reaction was composed of bromate in sulfuric acid, 1,4-cyclohexanedione and ferroin to visualize the time development of patterns of chemical oscillations in the reaction-diffusion system. It is a bubble-free constitution in the aging of the reaction. Therefore, the setup constructed to collect image data via CCD cameras was simplified. The operation sequences of necessary devices were comprised of simple solid state relays which were started by a command from the operation room of JAMIC. The propagation profile of chemical patterns under microgravity of 10-5 g was collected as image data for 9.8 s, and processed by a software of STM-STS2. In the aqueous solutions, propagation velocity of chemical patterns under microgravity was decreased to 80.9 % of that under normal gravity, owing to suppression of convection. On the other hand, in gel matrix, gravity did not influence the propagation velocity.

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