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Bunsen burner
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A Bunsen burner is a piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, commonly used in scientific experiments and classrooms. It matters because it provides a reliable and controllable heat source for heating, sterilizing, and conducting various chemical and biological procedures in research and educational settings.
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- Uses
- Heating Sterilization Combustion
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- laboratory equipment
- Subclass of
- gas burner
- Named after
- Robert Bunsen
- Image
- Mechero Bunsen.jpg
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Commons category
- Bunsen burners
- discoverer or inventor
- Peter Desaga
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- Bunsen burner
- Cooperative Patent Classification code
- F23D 14/04
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Encyclopedic overview
A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of ambient air gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and 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, a mixture or, as Bunsen himself used, coal gas. Combustion temperature achieved depends in part on the adiabatic flame temperature of the chosen fuel mixture.
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