Crossword clues for bunsen burner
bunsen burner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bunsen burner \Bun"sen burn"er\, Bunsen's burner \Bun"sen's burn"er\(Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1879, named for Prof. Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) of Heidelberg, who invented it in 1855. He also was co-inventor of the spectroscope.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.
The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both.
Usage examples of "bunsen burner".
Suddenly his corroded bunsen burner seemed to have lost its cachet, but he could think of no other course than to brazen the matter out and play for time.
Ellis Loew was soundly trounced in the June '48 Republican primary, and I celebrated by cooking up beakers of moonshine on my Bunsen burner, getting everyone in the crime lab fried.
I reeled over to the Bunsen burner that was heating a futile beaker of water.
He sat at the zinc countertop in the light of one lit Bunsen burner while Serman crouched beneath, hidden by shadows and the lab stool.
Max pulled out the Bunsen burner and connected the rubber tube to the gas spigot.
He lit a bunsen burner and arranged a tin filled with about an inch of sand above the burner on a little metal stand and began to heat the sand.
Harris saw the Bunsen burner on the table flare up in spontaneous combustion and saw Doc burn himself with the match.
I didn't know what sort of a burner was used, so I used a bunsen burner.