Solution

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For this chemical reaction network, the law of mass action gives the reaction rates are , and . Their stoichiometry gives
Here the convention for absorbs any combinatorial factor for two identical reactants. Direct differentiation gives the two conservation laws
Eliminating and leaves
For positive , use the dimensionless variables , and . With prime marks denoting differentiation in , this becomes
where

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