Science: Bunsen Burner guide
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Have you ever wanted to try out a Bunsen Burner?
If yes, then this is the guide for YOU!
Before we get to the Bunsen burner, you need to know some important stuff: SAFETY.
Safety is very important, because once you do not obey the rules, you can be in big, big trouble. So let me tell you the safety rules:
1. always wear a lab coat/lab goggles when doing a experiment because it includes very good safety for example the lab coat does not (or hardly) catch fire.
2. If your hair is long: tie it into a ponytail, because once it catches fire that’s then that about it, of your hair and maybe of your life!
3. Never eat in a science lab.
4. Stand when you are doing an experiment, because if you knock something like acid over, you just have to step back 1 step.
5. Never run in a science lab, because you can knock materials over and you can have serious injuries or you can fall on a table corner.
Then finally we got to the point on which you will enjoy learning about The one and only Bunsen Burner.
First let me tell you some interesting facts about the bunsen burner:
Did you know that the Bunsen Burners are not all made the same, and that Robert Bunsen made the Bunsen burner and called it after himself?
Speaking about Robert Bunsen: He was born on 30 March 1811 and died on 16 August 1899.
He lived for 88 years, which was very old in that time.
So that was it for the facts. Now let’s go on with: How to use a Bunsen Burner.
First of all let me tell you that the name of the gas which is used for the Bunsen Burner is CH4. Now you always have to make sure that the little round metal plate is as high as possible, otherwise you can NOT do the experiment. The gas goes through the tube and then arrives at the chimney/barrel which directly leads it to the end of the chimney/barrel and there it blows the CH4