Belousov Zhabotinsky reaction 8 x normal speed

The famous Belousov Zhabotinsky chemical reaction in a petri dish. The action is speeded up 8 x from real life. Pacemaker nucleation sites emit circular waves. Breaking the wavefront with a wire triggers pairs of spiral defects which emit more closely spaced waves which eventually fill the container.

Chemistry by Michael Rogers, camera by Stephen Morris.

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[HoryBP1]

Genius duet

Science and great music

And what song is this, dammit ;P

[Stephen Morris]

The song is "We'll be right back!" by Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet.

[melukosi]

Is this a petri dish or a beaker? I ask because I wanted to know how much of the solution was actually used to effectively see the spiraling oscillations. I would think a petri dish with a very small amount, but I've done all my reactions in about 500 mL quantities and would need to scale them down dramatically.

[Stephen Morris]

It is a petri dish. The solution must be thin to avoid convection effects. Just a few mm deep at most.

[chandin69]

could be a bit off topic but would this have anything common with the double slit experiment?

(interms of "particle" electrons behaving as waves, which is a macroscopic phenomenon)?

[Stephen Morris]

This has nothing whatever to do with the double slit experiment. Not everything cool in physics (or chemistry) is quantum.

[Stephen Morris]

Simple: I used iMovie to speed up the video!

[hakunamatata365]

How would one set this up at home?

[ottospiel]

The music blows.

The reaction is cool.

[stereotomyalan]

stop putting inside microbas ya bastard!

[bendedheadtube]

HOW?

[virilevocalist]

Which song by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet?

[o11y217]

do you have the chemicals and concentrations for this reaction? im trying to do a bz reaction for my a level chemistry coursework

[lekunberriko1]

Science become art and viceversa.

[hamhurricane]

Would you please post the exact reactants and their relative quantities?