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What Is A Bunsen Burner And Who Invented It?

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Bunsen Burner was invented by Robert Bunsen when in 1854, he
suggested some design principles to Peter Desaga. Robert asked him to construct a prototype because Peter was a mechanic. Later on Bunsen and Desaga designed a hot, sootless, non-luminous flame. They did this by mixing the gas with air in a controlled fashion. Therefore, it was given the name of the Bunsen Burner.
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A bunsen burner is a small metal chamber with a tube in it for gas to run along from a gas tap. When you turn the gas on it instantly mixes with exactly the right amount of air of which the bunsen takes in; and causes the two to react with each-other which cause a flame.
It was invented by Michael Faraday but improved by Robert Bunsen.
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The Bunsen burner was invented in 1855. Surprisingly, Robert Bunsen didn't exactly make the burner himself, although it was his idea to mix gas with air before combustion. The actual creator of the burner was a technician, Peter Desaga. You can find out more here.
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Mr. Bunsen was a German chemist. He was born on 31 March 1811 and passed away on August 16, 1899. His full name is "Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen". He is famous for his invention Bunsen Burner, Bunsen Battery, spectroscope and photometer. Mr. Bunsen was a lecturer at Gottingen and contributed a lot in his field. His discovery regarding iron oxide hydrate usage as precipitating agent is another of his remarkable contribution, which is even today best-known antidote against arsenic poisoning.
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This is actually quite complicated and confusing.
 
a common misconception is that Robert Bunsen invent the bunsen burner.
 
but in fact, Michael Faraday was the first to come up with a design of the bunsen burner. Though he named it the 'Tirrell Burner'.
 
ok now it gets confusing.
 
bunsen didnt even build the bunsen burner.
 
it was actually his lab assistant Peter Desaga who built the first prototype.
 
it seems like bunsen just took the credit.
 
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Mr. Robert Bunsen is famous for his development of a specialized kind of Burner which are now known as Bunsen Burners and are commonly used as laboratory apparatus.

Robert Bunsen was born in Germany in the city Gottingen on 31 March 1811. He was the youngest sibling in a family of four songs. His father was Christian Bunsen (1770-1837) who was the chief librarian and professor of Modern Philology at the University of Gottingen.

Bunsen attended his school in Holzminden. After completing his school education, he studied Chemistry. After completing his degree from University of Gottingen, he became a lecturer at the same University. His work was based on experimental studies of solubility and insolubility of metal salts of arsenous acid. He discovered the use of iron oxide hydrate as precipitating agent.

After working at several institutions he joined Gustav Kirchhoff for studying the emission spectra of heated elements. For his laboratory work, he needed a perfect burner that was non-luminous, hot and sootless.  He designed it with the help of his lab assistant in the year 1855.

He retired at the age of 78 and died in the city of Heidelberg in the year 1899.

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A Bunsen burner is a small burner that is widely used in laboratories – from school labs to top research labs and universities. It is powered by gas and consists of a metal base and a vertical tube about 12 cm long. The flame is lit at the top when the gas supply is switched on and an air window at the base of the tube can be left open or closed.

When the air window is closed, the flame is yellow, like a candle flame and quite cool. When the air window is opened, more oxygen enters the gas before it burns and the creates a very hot blue and purple flame that can reach temperatures of 1500 degrees Celsius.

It is used of heating lab equipment and chemicals.

The Bunsen burner was invented by and named after Robert Wilhelm Bunsen who lived between 1811 and 1899. He was a German chemist and he also discovered two new elements during his career – rubidium and caesium.
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According to the Giant Book of Facts and Trivia published in 1993 and edited by Isaac Asimov Robert W. Bunsen did not invent the Bunsen burner but he did popularise its use.
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According to The Giant Book of Facts and Trivia, published in 1993 and edited by Isaac Asimov Robert W. Bunsen did not invent the Bunsen burner but he did popularise its use. It doesn't say who did invent it.
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Bunsen Burner is gas Burner and is mainly used for heating, sterilization and burning. It has a needle valve and a hose barb. The hose barb is present at the left sides and the needle valve at the right side. It has adjustable air inlet. One can adjust it with the help of barrel. It is named after its inventor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen. He lived for 80 years from the year 1811 till 1899. He was a great scientist and a wonderful lecturer.  
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A Bunsen Burner is basically a laboratory equipment which is used to produce a single and open gas flame. It is used for heating, combustion and sterilization.

Bunsen Burner was invented by Robert Bunsen. There were ordinary lamps that were used in chemical experiments before  his time. He was hired by the University of Heidelberg and he was promised a new laboratory by the authorities. He was aware of this key issue in the labs. So he suggested a specific design for it in the year 1854 and proposed it to his talented mechanic Peter Desaga.  He constructed a prototype for him. This was successful as the new lamp gave a hot, soot less, non-luminous flame. Thus, by the time the building was complete in the year 1855, Desage had made around 50 of such burners for Robert's students.
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He thought it was a hot idea.

But seriously, he had an idea how to improve the existing burners of the day, and since a new lab was being constructed to use coal gas, they wanted a way to burn the gas in a controllable way without making soot.

see:
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It is a misconception that Robert Bunsen was the inventor. It was invented by Michael Faraday but improved upon by Bunsen.
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Robert Bunsen invented it its just michael farady made a downgrade of it Robert didnt copy his idea though. Just simply a mistake and also his lab assistant "HELPED" making it in 1855. So theres some true info.
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He invented the Burner because he wanted to find the real colours of a flame without any chemicals in it.
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He invented it because he thought it would help other people, and he was very interested in chemistry, but really his assistant should get a bit of credit

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