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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, ...
For instance, a candle uses the heat of the flame itself to vaporize its wax fuel and the oxidizer diffuses into the flame from the surrounding air, while a gaslight flame (or the safety flame of a Bunsen burner) uses fuel already in the form of a vapor. Diffusion flames are often studied in counter flow (also called opposed jet) burners.
The sparks created by striking steel against a piece of flint provide the activation energy to initiate combustion in this Bunsen burner.The blue flame sustains itself after the sparks stop because the continued combustion of the flame is now energetically favorable.
In a Bunsen flame, a steady flow rate is provided which matches the flame speed so as to stabilize the flame. If the flow rate is below the flame speed, the flame will move upstream until the fuel is consumed or until it encounters a flame holder. If the flow rate is equal to the flame speed, we would expect a stationary flat flame front normal ...
The reaction is named after Robert Bunsen. He did not discover the reaction, but he described it in detail in 1853. [3] A similar reaction is the basis for Karl Fischer titration. Note that at sufficiently high temperatures, concentrated H 2 SO 4 may react with HI, giving I 2, SO 2 and H 2 O, which reverses the reaction. [2]
Robert Bunsen invented the now-famous Bunsen burner in 1855, which was useful in flame tests due to its non-luminous flame that did not disrupt the colors emitted by the test materials. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The Bunsen burner , combined with a prism (filtering the color interference of contaminants ), led to the creation of the spectroscope , capable of ...
A variety of Bunsen burner flames. Bunsen burners may be adjusted from a highly luminous flame (left) to a hotter 'roaring blue flame' (right) One of the most familiar instances of a luminous flame is produced by a Bunsen burner. This burner has a controllable air supply and a constant gas jet: when the air supply is reduced, a highly luminous ...
For this work, Bunsen and his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, had perfected a special gas burner by 1855, which was influenced by earlier models. The newer design of Bunsen and Desaga, which provided a very hot and clean flame, is now called simply the "Bunsen burner", a common laboratory equipment. [16] [17]