The general results of article I on the stochastic representation of the macroscopic stationary state of a self-catalytic chemical system are applied to a step-by-step chemical reaction. The relaxation times to the quasi-stationary state and to the final stationary state are computed by...

By using the spectral theory of the master equation, it is shown generally that a self-catalytic chemical system may evolve according to two widely different time scales in this case. The shorter one describes the evolution towards a quasi-stationary state which is the stochastic equivalent of...