Bunsen may refer to:
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Christian Charles Josias Bunsen
Christian Charles or Karl Josias von Bunsen (25 August 1791 – 28 November 1860), also known as , was a German diplomat and scholar.
Life
Early life
Bunsen was born at Korbach, an old town in the German principality of Waldeck. His fath ...
(1791–1860), Prussian diplomat and scholar
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Frances Bunsen
Baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen (4 March 1791 – 23 April 1876) was a Welsh painter, author and diplomatic hostess, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, and the older sister of Lady Llanover.
Early life
Frances Waddington was born in ...
(1791–1876), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen
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Robert Bunsen
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (;
30 March 1811
– 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bu ...
(1811–1899), German chemist, after whom is named:
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Bunsen burner
A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of ambient air gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.
The gas can be natural gas (which is main ...
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Bunsen cell
The Bunsen cell is a zinc-carbon primary cell (colloquially called a "battery") composed of a zinc anode in dilute sulfuric acid separated by a porous pot from a carbon cathode in Nitric acid, nitric or chromic acid.
Cell details
The Bunsen ce ...
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Bunsen crater on the moon
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10361 Bunsen
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit (measurement), unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment ...
, an asteroid
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Bunsen Reaction
The Bunsen reaction is a chemical reaction that describes water, sulfur dioxide, and iodine reacting to form sulfuric acid and hydrogen iodide:
: 2H2O + SO2 + I2 → H2SO4 + 2HI
This reaction is the first step in the sulfur-iodine cycle to produ ...
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Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award is a prize for "outstanding achievements" in the field of analytical spectroscopy. It has been awarded since 1990 by the German Working Group for Applied Spectroscopy, and is endowed with by PerkinElmer, Germany. The ...
, a German award for spectroscopy
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Maurice de Bunsen
Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, 1st Baronet, (8 January 1852 – 21 February 1932),de BUNSEN, Rt Hon. Sir Maurice (William Ernest)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 was a British diplomat.
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(1852–1932), British diplomat
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Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is a Muppet character from ''The Muppet Show'', performed by Dave Goelz. He is a bald, yellow-skinned, bespectacled, lab-coated scientist who presented periodic science segments from "Muppet Labs, where the future is being mad ...
, fictional character from the Muppet Show
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