- Subject
- Laboratory equipment
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Not ascertained
- Primary inscriptions
- Unsigned and undated
- Physical material
- Iron
- Object type
- Bunsen burner
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 90mm Height: 169mm Weight: 462g
- Inventory No
- 40654
Description
A bunsen burner invented by the German chemist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen, initially to produce a 'colourless' gas flame for his chemical spectrometer, it soon became the first effective portable source of heat in Laboratories. The air intake is controlled by a collar sliding up the tube and operated by a lever.
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