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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
bunsen burner ; a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air
- noun German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
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Examples
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• Bottles of chemicals liable to hydrolysis, e.g. silicon tetrachloride, calcium carbide or phosphide etc, should have original stoppers, or fitted with a kind of bunsen valves.
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One professor banned women from his laboratory because they were dangerous – the bunsen burners might set fire to their hair.
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I can only hope these games can inspire future architects and inventors. bunsen
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I can only hope these games can inspire future architects and inventors. bunsen
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The next exit is the hospital — I bet her daughter has fallen out of the window at the high school while escaping from an exploding bunsen burner in Chemistry class.
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Where were the bunsen burners, the atomizers, the clouds of nitrogen, the strange foams, and the dishes that looked straight out of a Bosch painting?
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Yech, but marshmallows over a bunsen burner, yummy, if you follow tong safety.elizabethQuote
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Also there are no bunsen burners, iron filings or sulphuric acid in my lab; there are computers with internet connections though ...
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Back to your laboratory you unspeakable cad and stick a bunsen burner up your bottom.
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