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Do you remember the Bunsen Burner from your school day chemistry and physics lessons all those decades ago?

Well it's Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday today, according to Google's home page.

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh those great school days when Mr Storr, our chemistry teacher, was making sulphuric acid and had so many sulphur trioxide crystals in a beaker he was salivating because of the exceptional yield from his best ever attempt at the experiment.

That's until he added water and the whole beaker exploded, showering all that were close to the front with sulphuric acid and burning loads of little holes in his suit and skin and the clothes and skin of those near to the explosion!!!

Great times!!!

Thank you Robert Bunsen; our lives would not be complete without you and people like Mr Storr!!!

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Brummie Cabbie.

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I remember when we used to hold the magnesium strips over the bunsen burner.

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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

Elf'n'Safe Tea need a quick call....

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

We had large wooden drawers in the desks of the science labs at school (Hewett in Norwich). We found that if you shut a unlit but turned on bunsen in there for half a minute or so,then dropped a lit match inside the gap the draw would blow out with a very satisfying bang and a nice flame.
Although no body actually got hurt as a direct result it usually ended up with the experimenter having a very sore backside and being unable to sit down for some while afterwards.

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Selling Imperial tools for old cars.

Brilliant!!!

Those were the days!!!

Kids today have no fun, all because of 'Elf 'n Safe Tea'

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Brummie Cabbie.

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Spoil sports!!

Thank you Mr Bunsen, many an enjoyment has came from your invention of the past years.

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Tam Tam the taxi man,
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Tam can

Only magnesium strips didn't you try other chemicals to see what colour flame you got

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

ever catched your fart in a waste paper bin then ignited it?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

I conducted my experiments outdoors, for good reason.

Experiments conducted regularly from the age of 9 until 14

Mr Skippy41 is a terrorist; he's a bomb maker!!!

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Brummie Cabbie.

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On the serious side might I suggest that the above two posts be removed from the forum as these days it mitght just be considered an offence to post such info and could get the forum admins into trouble

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Al Queda look in regular

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

I was thinking more the politically correct thought police that seem to inhabit the internet these days

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

That was over 40 years ago the word Al Qaeda had never been invented
Once in the Army we used detonators and radio batteries to go fishing

During the war Rodney....................

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Grandad,