title: Avalanche behavior in the dynamics of chemical reactions.
abstract: Sudden bursts of chemical activity, displaying avalanche-like behavior, have been observed in reactions between metals and liquid electrolytes by measuring the time-dependent chemomagnetic fields with a high-T(c) SQUID. The observed intermittent chemomagnetic field pulses exhibit power-law behavior in the distributions of peak sizes, noise spectra, and return-time distributions. Such power-law behavior provides evidence for self-organized criticality occurring in the form of "chemical avalanches" over a wide range of size and time scales.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Claycomb
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Bassler
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nersesyan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Luss