Hypercycle (chemistry)

Hypercycles are a way of describing how chemicals interact with each other in a very specific order. Imagine that there's a big wheel in front of you, and it has a bunch of numbers on it in a circle. That's like a hypercycle - the numbers on the wheel are different chemicals, and the wheel itself is like what happens when the chemicals interact together. So, when the wheel starts to turn, one chemical reacts with another, and so on until all of the chemicals in the wheel have reacted with each other. This is kind of like a never-ending cycle of reactions and it's a very important concept in chemistry.