Bunsen burner

Example Sentences

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Ian Fenn, who has since retired from Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester, said Abedi could "barely light a Bunsen burner" while a pupil at his school.

From BBC

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

From BBC

Occasionally, they barter or resell groceries for prized items such as a Bunsen burner, which they use to cook dishes such as vegetable soup over rice.

From Los Angeles Times

As their instructor looked on, Vicencio and classmate Joy Maina, an Air Force reservist, joked while they hustled to turn potassium chlorate into potassium chloride and oxygen using a beaker of water and a Bunsen burner during an introductory chemistry course.

From Washington Post

In a video posted on the website, Mr. Ganzer, then the Eleven Madison Park sommelier, demonstrates a technique for serving port wine that involves heating a pair of tongs with a Bunsen burner so that they can be used to cut off the bottle’s top “to bypass the cork and just get at the wine.”

From New York Times