Attributive use of the name of Professor R. W. E. Bunsen of Heidelberg, denoting appliances invented by him: Bunsen(’s) burner, lamp, a kind of gas-burner used for heating and for blowpipe work, in which air is burnt along with gas. Bunsen(’s) battery, a voltaic battery in which the elements are carbon and zinc, and in which nitric and sulphuric acids, or solution of bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid, are employed. Bunsen cell, one of the cells of which a Bunsen battery is composed.
1879. Noad, Electricity (ed. Preece), 179. Bunsen’s battery has the cylindrical form of Daniell’s.
1870. Tyndall, Heat, ii. § 54. As in the case of Bunsen’s burner.
1870. Eng. Mech., 11 Feb., 525/1. [He] describes … a Bunsen cell modified by him.
