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Bunsen burner

The Bunsen burner is a crucial heating device in chemical laboratories, with its flame size and shape influenced by gas supply and air intake. A properly adjusted flame is transparent with a bluish tinge, while the yellow flame, produced with a closed air hole, is luminous but dirty due to soot. The blue flame, produced with a partially open air hole, is hot, clean, and the most commonly used in labs.

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Bunsen burner

The Bunsen burner is a crucial heating device in chemical laboratories, with its flame size and shape influenced by gas supply and air intake. A properly adjusted flame is transparent with a bluish tinge, while the yellow flame, produced with a closed air hole, is luminous but dirty due to soot. The blue flame, produced with a partially open air hole, is hot, clean, and the most commonly used in labs.

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Bunsen burner

The Bunsen burner is one of the most


important heating devices in a
chemical laboratory.

The size and shape of the burner


flame
The size and shape of the Bunsen
burner flame is influenced by the
following factors.
 The amount t of gas supplied to
the Bunsen burner will
determine the size of the flame
produced. The colour of the
flame remains the same

Components of a Bunsen
burner  The amount of air entering the
chimney is adjusted by opening or closing the air hole by turning the
collar. This changes the mixture of gas being burnt and produces
changes in the colour and shape of the flame.
 A properly adjusted flame is transparent with a bluish tinge. It is steady,
does not make noise or produce soot. The Bunsen burner produces
different flames. The usual ones are the yellow and blue flames.
The yellow flame
It is produced when the air hole is shut. It is luminous and ‘dirty’. It is dirty
because it coats things held inside it with a black deposit. The black deposit is
soot. This soot is carbon from the butane (organic fuel) gas burning.

The blue flame


It is produced when the air hole is half-open or half-closed. It is hot and clean.
It is the most commonly used flame. When the air hole is fully open, a flame of
two zones is produced. The inner-blue green zone is cold. It contains a mixture
of gases (air) and butane) when it is not burning. When it is burning, it gives
the light blue flame in the outer zone

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