Abstract
As the previous papers in this Symposium have demonstrated, the last decade has witnessed the discovery of a wide range of fascinating dynamical phenomena in chemistry. Many of these advances could not have been made without an experimental tool that we chemists have borrowed from
our intellectual cousins, the chemical engineers. In this article, I discuss how this instrument, the continuous-flow, stirred tank reactor, or CSTR, works, and I summarize some of the many exotic modes of behavior that have been seen in CSTR’s.