bunsen burner

(noun)

A small laboratory gas burner whose air supply may be controlled with an adjustable hole.

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Examples of bunsen burner in the following topics:

  • Heat

    • Leaving transfer loops in the flame of a Bunsen burner or alcohol lamp until it glows red ensures that any infectious agent gets inactivated.
    • A variation on flaming is to dip the object in 70% ethanol (or a higher concentration) and merely touch the object briefly to the Bunsen burner flame, but not hold it in the gas flame.

  • Aseptic Technique, Dilution, Streaking, and Spread Plates

    • This means passing rims and lids through the flame produced by a Bunsen burner in order to kill microorganisms coming in contact with those surfaces.
    • Heat is an excellent means of killing microorganisms, and the Bunsen burner is the sterile technician's best friend.

  • Write Productively-Part II

    • When I was a kid, Wally in an episode of the "Leave it to Beaver" TV show was given the honor of uttering a single sentence in a school movie: "Please pass the Bunsen burner."

  • Overview of Heat

    • Conduction is heat transfer through stationary matter by physical contact. ( The matter is stationary on a macroscopic scale—we know there is thermal motion of the atoms and molecules at any temperature above absolute zero. ) Heat transferred between the electric burner of a stove and the bottom of a pan is transferred by conduction.

  • Tiwanaku and Wari

    • They were created in wood, engraved bone, and cloth and depicted puma and jaguar effigies, incense burners, carved wooden hallucinogenic snuff tablets, and human portrait vessels.

  • Religion Under the Tang Dynasty

    • In 742 Emperor Xuanzong personally held the incense burner during a ceremony led by Amoghavajra (705–74, patriarch of the Shingon school) reciting "mystical incantations to secure the victory of Tang forces."

  • Ceramics in Early South America

    • They were created in wood, engraved bone, and cloth and depicted puma and jaguar effigies, incense burners, carved wooden hallucinogenic snuff tablets, and human portrait vessels.

  • Ten ways to minimize product waste

    • Stelrad Ideal (Caradon Heating) improved its line of domestic boilers by using flue heat to supplement the heat produced by the boiler's gas burner thereby boosting the efficiency of its product to over 95%.