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An experiment on signal transmission in a chemical system involving the catalytic oxidation of malonic acid by bro-mate in an acidic medium is reported in this article.
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BUSSE, H., HESS, B. Information Transmission in a Diffusion-Coupled Oscillatory Chemical System. Nature 244, 203–205 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244203a0
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