Year 8 Exams Flashcards
When was Robert Bunsen born?
30th March 1811, Göttingen, Germany
When did Robert Bunsen die?
16th August 1899
Where was Robert Bunsen born?
Heidelberg, Germany
What was Robert Bunsen famous for and how did he make the discovery?
With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen - Kirchhoff award for spectorscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Did Robert Bunsen make any other important discoveries?
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered cæsium and rebudium with the phisicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
Any other interesting information about Robert Bunsen?
In 1841 Bunsen invented the zinc-carbon cell-often called the Bunsen battery. He saw this as an improvement on the expensive Grove cell, which was used, for example, to power telegraph lines. The Grove cell was a zinc-platinum cell. The platinum in it made it very expensive.
If you met Robert Bunsen what question would you like to ask him?
What age were you when you became interested in chemistry?
How does Gaviscon work?
Gaviscon works by forming a raft (a protective barrier) on top of the stomach contents soon after it has made contact with the stomach acid. The raft acts as a strong physical barrier and helps to keep stomach contents in the stomach where they belong and not in the food pipe where they hurt.
