Mek·er burn·er
n : a laboratory gas burner that differs from a typical Bunsen burner in having a constriction in the tube and a grid at the top of the burner causing the flame of burning gas to consist of a number of short blue inner cones and a large single outer cone and to be hotter generally than the flame of a Bunsen burner Méker, Georges (fl 1897-1914), French chemist. Méker introduced the Meker burner in an article published in 1909.
Similar sounding terms: mi·cro·burn·er
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