bunsen

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Now look for burnt fingers from Bunsen burners or from building model rockets you probably won't find many.

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Quick take

A German surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bunsen gathered in one view.

noun

A German surname.

noun

(cricket, informal, rhyming slang) A turner (a pitch on which the ball turns easily).

noun

(chemistry, informal) Ellipsis of Bunsen burner. [(sciences) A small laboratory gas burner whose air supply may be controlled with an adjustable hole.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bunsen.

noun

A German surname.

noun

(cricket, informal, rhyming slang) A turner (a pitch on which the ball turns easily).

noun

(chemistry, informal) Ellipsis of Bunsen burner. [(sciences) A small laboratory gas burner whose air supply may be controlled with an adjustable hole.]

Example sentences

Now look for burnt fingers from Bunsen burners or from building model rockets you probably won't find many.

We used to fill pencil cases up with gas and squirt across a bunsen burner when no-one was looking.

Maybe bringing modern scientific equipment in to school biology classes to expand public knowledge beyond test tubes and bunsen burners.

Census, wholesalers brought in $7.2 trillion selling everything from Bunsen burners to toner cartridges.

The first session in my freshman Chemistry lab was on bending glass tubing by heating it to softness with a Bunsen burner.

If you boil water in a beaker, do you need a control beaker where you monitor the temperature but don't light the Bunsen burner?

Poor man’s method is working right next to an open Bunsen burner.

I am having trouble finding a good reason to light a fire in a school other than to light a Bunsen burner.

Also portable portable bunsen burner with many gas cartridges.

[0] I'm not sure of the actual English name, I mean those kits with a dozen things to combine, a becher, a Bunsen burner etc.

And I think the lead fumes from melting it on a bunsen burner from my Christmas chemistry set probably didn't help us in the long run...

> I am having trouble finding a good reason to light a fire in a school other than to light a Bunsen burner.

Quote examples

If you use a Bunsen burner in a method according to the scientific method, does it count as "science"?

Proper noun examples

Bunsen and Beeker to a bunch of talking animals.

The foremost classical example of a major achievement produced by such a division of labor is the creation of spectrum analysis by the joint efforts of Robert Bunsen, the experimenter, and Gustav Kirchoff, the theorist.