BUNSEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bunsen mean? 

• BUNSEN (noun)
  The noun BUNSEN has 2 senses:

1. German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)

2. a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air

  Familiarity information: BUNSEN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNSEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bunsen; Robert Bunsen; Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bunsen; bunsen burner; etna

Hypernyms ("bunsen" is a kind of...):

gas burner; gas jet (burner such that combustible gas issues from a nozzle to form a steady flame)

 Context examples 

A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)