Biology GCSE
Bunsen burner
What Bunsen burner means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Bunsen burner
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Reference: OCR
A heating device used with a beaker of water supported on a tripod and wire gauze, set to a blue heating flame rather than direct flame heating.
A heating device used with a tripod and wire gauze to boil the leaf in water, and which must be turned off completely before ethanol is used.
Topics that use Bunsen burner
- Photosynthesis (OCR GCSE)
- Testing for biological molecules (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- water bath
- axis scaling
- Biomass
- bubble counting
- carbon dioxide concentration
- chlorophyll
- chloroplasts
- commercial applications
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