• Question: You must be Judith, why do they call a busen a burner a busen burner?

    Asked by sophgloves to Judith on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Judith McCann

      Judith McCann answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      You must be Sophie Glover, I hope you’re feeling better!

      Bunsen burners are called that because Robert Bunsen “invented” them-I’ve put in in air quotes because he didn’t really, he wanted a way to control the air flow to the gas flame and an engineer called Desaga actually invented it but Bunsen got the credit and the name!

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