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True deterministic chaos is characterized by unpredictable, apparently random motion in a dynamical system completely described by a deterministic dynamic law, usually a nonlinear differential equation, with no stochastic component. The inability to predict future behavior of a chaotic system occurs because trajectories evolving from arbitrarily close initial conditions diverge. Chaos is universal as it may arise in any system governed by one of a class of quite common, suitable nonlinear dynamic laws. This book discusses both the experimental observation and theoretical interpretation of chaos in chemical and biochemical systems. Examples are drawn from the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, surface reactions, electrochemical reactions, enzyme reactions, and periodically perturbed oscillating systems.

Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Nonlinear chemical kinetics. --- Oscillating chemical reactions. --- Chemical oscillations --- Chemical systems, Oscillations in --- Oscillating reactions --- Oscillations, Chemical --- Oscillations (Chemical kinetics) --- Oscillations in chemical reactions --- Oscillations in chemical systems --- Oscillatory reactions --- Reactions, Oscillating --- Reactions, Oscillations in chemical --- Reactions, Oscillatory --- Chemical reactions --- Chemical kinetics --- Nonlinear theories --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- System theory --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Biological systems