Bunsen Burner Definition

bunsən
noun
A small gas burner that produces a hot, blue flame, used in chemistry laboratories, etc.: it consists of a hollow metal tube with holes at the bottom for admitting air to be mixed with the gas.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Bunsen Burner

Noun

Singular:
Bunsen burner
Plural:
bunsen-burners

Origin of Bunsen Burner

  • After Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bunsen Burner Sentence Examples

  • Strontium salts may be recognized by the characteristic crimson colour they impart to the flame of the Bunsen burner and by the precipitation of the insoluble sulphate.

  • By this method even such metals as iron and copper may be made to show some of their characteristic lines in the Bunsen burner.

  • If a short length of platinum wire be inserted vertically into a lighted Bunsen burner the luminous line may be used as a slit and viewed directly through a prism.

  • Thus one of the most common spectra is that seen at the base of every candle and in every Bunsen burner.

  • Young, according to which the dark line observed in the centre of each component of the sodium doublet in a Bunsen burner is transparent to a radiation placed behind.

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