1. bunsen - Noun
2. Bunsen - Proper noun
a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air
German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
Source: WordNetYou don't have to be a scientist – you don't have to play the Bunsen burner – in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture. Richard Dawkins
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.' Simon Cowell
I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention. Jim Sturgess
A drop of blood placed between two glass slides and heated over a Bunsen burner fixed the blood cells while still allowing them to be stained. Source: Internet
Convection can be demonstrated by placing a heat source (e.g. a Bunsen burner ) at the side of a glass full of a liquid, and observing the changes in temperature in the glass caused by the warmer ghost fluid moving into cooler areas. Source: Internet
Kirchhoff and Bunsen processed 150 kg of a lepidolite containing only 0.24% rubidium oxide (Rb 2 O). Source: Internet