It's 200 years to the day since the birth of Robert Bunsen, the German chemist famous for inventing the ubiquitous Bunsen burner. But Bunsen's scientific legacy is far, far more important than that – ...

West Feliciana High chemistry students were recently learning the basic of lab work, including lighting Bunsen burners in Justin Davenport's class.

My eldest son started secondary school this year and that means his first science labs (in addition to all the other changes of course). I loved school science labs with the scratchy oversized lab ...

Every high school chemist has no doubt fiddled with a Bunsen burner—but where did the apparatus get its name? Science historian Howard Markel talks about the German chemist Robert Bunsen, and why his ...

Messrs. D. Schulte and Co. have submitted a sample of their self-lighting Bunsen burner, in which the well known property of finely divided platinum igniting under the influence of a stream of ...