The closest that most chemists get to the concepts of nonlinearity and emergent properties is a passing acquaintance with a well-known oscillating reaction. Bruce C. Gibb suggests that looking a little deeper into chaos and complexity could help us to answer some very important questions.
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Gibb, B. Teetering towards chaos and complexity. Nature Chem 1, 17–18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.148
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