Today is...
Bunsen Burner Day!

In 1852, a man named Robert Bunsen began working at the University of Heidelberg. He was trying to isolate chemical substances and soon became frustrated with the inefficient and smoky heat sources that were available in the laboratory. To solve the problem, he drew up plans for a burner that would mix gas and air prior to ignition. The result was the Bunsen burner, which is now used in laboratories all over the world.
Bunsen burners (along with Teclu burners and Meker burners) produce a smokeless blue flame at very high temperatures. Scientists use these types of burners for heating, combustion, and sterilization.
To celebrate Bunsen Burner Day, share your fondest or funniest memory from a high school chemistry class on our Facebook page! Happy Bunsen Burner Day!

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Today is also Baseball Opening Day

March is International Ideas Month & National Craft Month & National Peanut Month

 

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		History for March 31st 1945 - "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway   1959 - 14th Dalai Lama crosses the Tibetan border into India and granted asylum.   1994 -  The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. 1999 -  Wachowski brothers' film "The Matrix" premieres 2005 - Terri Schiavo died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a right-to-die dispute that engulfed the courts, Congress and the White House. ______________________________________________________ "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." - Yogi Berra