Bunsen
(ˈbʊnsən, ˈbʌnsən)
Attributive use of the name of Professor R. W. E. Bunsen of Heidelberg, denoting appliances invented by him: Bunsen('s) burner, lamp, a kind of gas-burner used for heating and for blowpipe work, in which air is burnt along with gas. Bunsen('s) battery, a voltaic battery in which the elements are carbon and zinc, and in which nitric and sulphuric acids, or solution of bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid, are employed. Bunsen cell, one of the cells of which a Bunsen battery is composed.
| 1879 Noad Electricity (ed. Preece) 179 Bunsen's battery has the cylindrical form of Daniell's. 1870 Tyndall Heat ii. §54 As in the case of Bunsen's burner. 1870 Eng. Mech. 11 Feb. 525/1 [He] describes..a Bunsen cell modified by him. |