Parents touring gleaming Somerville High School had plenty to admire as they walked the halls at a recent open house, learning about their kids’ courses and, for many, getting a first glimpse inside ...

A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas ...

Robert Bunsen is most famous for inventing the Bunsen burner, which he technically did not invent. What he’s not famous for is much more interesting. His most altruistic research, which has saved many ...

THE Bunsen burner is one of those simple and ingenious contrivances that could only have emanated from the brain of a practical genius. Unlike some of his successors to-day, Bunsen was never a ...

If you need to measure the temperature of something, chances are good that you could think up half a dozen ways to do it, pretty much all of which would involve some kind of thermometer, thermistor, ...