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Do you remember the Bunsen Burner?
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Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:42 am ]
Post subject:  Do you remember the Bunsen Burner?
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!!!
Author:  Nidge [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:57 am ]
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I remember when we used to hold the magnesium strips over the bunsen burner.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:20 am ]
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Elf'n'Safe Tea need a quick call....
Author:  Baconsdozen [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:51 am ]
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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.
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:09 pm ]
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Baconsdozen wrote:
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.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Brilliant!!!

Those were the days!!!

Kids today have no fun, all because of 'Elf 'n Safe Tea'
Author:  TaxiTam [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:02 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Elf'n'Safe Tea need a quick call....


Spoil sports!!

Thank you Mr Bunsen, many an enjoyment has came from your invention of the past years.
Author:  edders23 [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:08 pm ]
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Only magnesium strips didn't you try other chemicals to see what colour flame you got
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:37 pm ]
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ever catched your fart in a waste paper bin then ignited it?
Author:  skippy41 [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:23 pm ]
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I conducted my experiments outdoors, for good reason.

Experiments conducted regularly from the age of 9 until 14 :D
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:48 pm ]
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skippy41 wrote:
I conducted my experiments outdoors, for good reason.
take one screw top small swepche bottle 1 piece of clear hose, 2 LB of sugar, and 1 tub of powdered weed killer about the size of a pringle tube
Mix weed killer and sugar together, fill bottle make hole in screw top to take hose ram it about half way down, fill hose and seal around bottle top with plasticine
Go to massive pools when tide goes out light hose and throw bottle into middle and it sinks still burning and then explodes result loads of stunned fish on the surface use net or swim for them.
Take fish to hotels and restaurants and sell them

Experiments conducted regularly from the age of 9 until 14 :D

Mr Skippy41 is a terrorist; he's a bomb maker!!!
Author:  edders23 [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:11 pm ]
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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
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:18 pm ]
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edders23 wrote:
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


Al Queda look in regular
Author:  edders23 [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:24 pm ]
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I was thinking more the politically correct thought police that seem to inhabit the internet these days
Author:  skippy41 [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:27 pm ]
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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
Author:  grandad [ Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:46 pm ]
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skippy41 wrote:
Once in the Army we used detonators and radio batteries to go fishing


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