For the demonstration in the video below, [F-J] dangled a steel ball from a chain into a Bunsen burner flame and dunked it into 150 ml of room-temperature water. After a nice long toasting ...

We can learn from this near miss. Uncontrolled Bunsen burner use presents a significant fire hazard since they produce an open flame and burn at a high temperature. They should only be used in ...

Some metal cations have distinctive colours when held in a blue Bunsen burner flame. A nichrome wire is used to hold the test solid – nichrome has no flame colour of its own and it has a high ...