In the early 1970s, Warshel worked with Karplus at Harvard, who had already made major strides in quantum
descriptions of chemical reactions.
The entire process of muscular contraction, in terms of an identification of the molecules and
a description of the chemical reactions in the muscle fibre, has been almost completely explained.
Not exact matches
Equations concocted to describe a kind
of chemical reaction have been applied to the modeling
of crime, for example, and very recently a mathematical
description of magnets was shown also to describe the fruiting patterns
of trees in pistachio orchards.
The 28 slides cover the definition
of a
chemical reaction, the reactivity
of metals,
reactions of metals with oxygen,
description of what is needed for combustion and
reactions with carbonates.