Bunsen

American  

[buhn-suhn, boon-zuhn] / ˈbʌn sən, ˈbʊn zən /

noun

1. Robert Wilhelm 1811–99, German chemist.

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Bunsen British  

/ ˈbʌnsən, ˈbʊnzən /

noun

1. Robert Wilhelm (ˈroːbɛrt ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1811–99, German chemist who with Kirchhoff developed spectrum analysis and discovered the elements caesium and rubidium. He invented the Bunsen burner and the ice calorimeter

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Bunsen Scientific  

/ bŭn′sən /

1. German chemist who with Gustav Kirchhoff developed the technique of spectroscopic analysis, leading to their discovery of the elements cesium and rubidium. Bunsen also invented various kinds of laboratory equipment, although the Bunsen burner itself was probably constructed on an earlier design by Michael Faraday.

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Example Sentences

Throw on a lab coat, spark a Bunsen burner, and stay close to the eyewash station, but hopefully it won’t come to that.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Bunsen died at the age of 88 in 1899.

From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2023

"He wouldn't have known how to make a bomb -he could barely light a Bunsen burner," said Mr Fenn.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2023

For all I knew it was standard practice for an Olympic office to be equipped with Bunsen burners and sinks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald