Explodator: A new skeleton mechanism for the halate driven chemical oscillators

In the first part of this work, some shortcomings in the present theories of the Belousov–Zhabotinskii oscillating reaction are discussed. In the second part, a new oscillatory scheme, the limited Explodator, is proposed as an alternative skeleton mechanism. This model contains an always unstable three‐variable Lotka–Volterra core (the ‘‘Explodator’’) and a stabilizing limiting reaction. The new scheme exhibits Hopf bifurcation and limit cycle oscillations. Finally, some possibilities and problems of a generalization are mentioned.