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In this chapter we build on the law of mass action that we applied in Chapters 8 and 9 to model a chemical oscillator known as the Olsen oscillator. Chemical oscillators are unique in that they do not necessarily reach a single equilibrium state for a given set of initial conditions; rather, they seem to oscillate between two or more bounds of stability.
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Hannon, B., Ruth, M. (2001). The Olsen Oscillator. In: Dynamic Modeling. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0211-7_10
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