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Robert Bunsen
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Robert Bunsen was a German chemist who, with physicist Gustav Kirchhoff, developed the technique of spectral analysis in 1859, showing that each chemical element burns with its own characteristic pattern of spectral lines. The clean, smokeless gas burner that carries his name, refined in his laboratory, provided the steady, colorless flame the pair needed to see faint spectral lines clearly.
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Founded
Joint founding with Gustav Kirchhoff: their 1859-1861 spectral-analysis work identified the chemical composition of the sun and stars.
Invented
Credited jointly with Gustav Kirchhoff for the 1859 development of practical spectral analysis.
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1. Kirchhoff and Bunsen on Spectroscopy (ChemTeam)
Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, Annalen der Physik und der Chemie, 1860Annalen der Physik, 1860, via chemteam.infoQuote, Annalen der Physik, 1860, via chemteam.info
A method of qualitative analysis can be based on these lines, whereby the field of chemical reactions is greatly widened.
1. Kirchhoff and Bunsen on Spectroscopy (ChemTeam)
Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, Annalen der Physik und der Chemie, 1860Works In: ChemistryView the Source 1. Kirchhoff and Bunsen on Spectroscopy (ChemTeam)
Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, Annalen der Physik und der Chemie, 1860Invented: SpectroscopeView the Source Astrophysics (Britannica)
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