Bunsen burner

English

Etymology

Named after German chemist and inventor Robert Bunsen, who invented the burner.

Noun

Bunsen burner (plural Bunsen burners)

A Bunsen burner heating liquid in a beaker.

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

   Coordinate terms: Meker burner, Teclu burner

   • 1866, John Joseph Griffin, Chemical Handicraft: A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus:

     The due performance of Bunsen's burner depends upon the proper admixture of gas and air.

   • 1875 October 1, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 22, page 56:

     Although the Bunsen burner has been in extensive use for several years, there would seem to be a very well-grounded suspicion that its capabilities have not yet been fully discovered, for applications for patents for inventions, which are based on the Bunsen burner, or on modifications of it, are occasionally found in the official journal of the Patent Office.

   • 2007, Ilan Patrick, Microbiological Analysis of Grapes and Wine: Techniques and Concepts:

     Flame sterilisation is a frequently used technique in the microbiology laboratory and Bunsen burners are commonly used to provide the flame.

Synonyms

• Bunsen (informal)

Translations

small laboratory gas burner

• Arabic: مَوْقِد بُنْسِن (mawqid bunsin)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: Bunsen erregailu
• Bengali: বুনসেন বার্নার (bunośen barnar)
• Bulgarian: бунзенова горелка f (bunzenova gorelka)
• Catalan: cremador Bunsen m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 本生燈／本生灯 (bun² sang¹ dang¹)

  Mandarin: 本生燈／本生灯 (zh) (běnshēngdēng)

• Czech: Bunsenův kahan m
• Danish: bunsenbrænder
• Dutch: bunsenbrander (nl) m
• Esperanto: brulilo de Bunsen
• Finnish: bunsenlamppu (fi), bunsenpoltin
• French: bec Bunsen (fr) m
• Galician: queimador Bunsen m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bunsenbrenner (de) m
• Greek: Μπούνσεν n (Boúnsen)
• Hebrew: מבער בונזן
• Hindi: बुन्सेन बर्नर (bunsen barnar), बुन्सेन ज्वालक (bunsen jvālak)
• Hungarian: Bunsen-égő
• Icelandic: bunsenbrennari m
• Indonesian: pembakar Bunsen
• Irish: dóire Bunsen m
• Italian: becco di Bunsen m
• Japanese: ブンゼンバーナー (bunzenbānā)
• Khmer: ឧបករណ៍ដុតប៊ុនសេន (ʼupaʼkɑɑ dot bunseen)
• Korean: 분젠 버너 (bunjen beoneo)
• Malay: penunu Bunsen
• Malayalam: ബുൻസൻ ദീപം (buṉsaṉ dīpaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bunsenbrenner

• Persian: چراغ بونزن (čerâğ-e bunzen)
• Polish: palnik Bunsena
• Portuguese: bico de Bunsen (pt) m
• Romanian: bec Bunsen m
• Russian: бу́нзеновская горе́лка f (búnzɛnovskaja gorélka)
• Sinhalese: බන්සන් දාහකය (bansan dāhakaya)
• Spanish: mechero (es) m, quemador Bunsen m
• Swedish: bunsenbrännare (sv)
• Tagalog: apuyang Bunsen, kalang Bunsen
• Tamil: பன்சன் சுடரடுப்பு (paṉcaṉ cuṭaraṭuppu)
• Thai: ตะเกียงบุนเซิน (dtà-giiang bun-sern)
• Ukrainian: пальник Бунзена f (palʹnyk Bunzena)
• Vietnamese: Bunsen burner
• Welsh: llosgydd Bunsen m
• Western Panjabi: بنسن چلا

Further reading

• Bunsen burner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia