Asatypicaloscillatingchemicalreaction,studiesoftheBelousov-Zhabotinskyreactionhavenotonlyyieldedimportantresultstoprovideinsightstomanykineticandthermodynamicproblems,butalsoprovidedsuggestivemodelsforanumberofimportantbiologicalprocesses.NowtheBZreactionhasbecomeausefulexperimentalmodelforstudyingnonlinearphenomenaindistributedsystems.WecarriedoutasystematicstudyoftheinfluencefactorsontheBZreactioninaclosedsystem,andsomenewobservationsarereportedhereforthefirsttime.
