Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was born on March 31, 1811 at the University of Göttingen. He was a German chemist and thanks to the invention of the Bunsen burner, in which Peter Desega helped him, he became famous throughout the world. Robert had earned the highest degree award from his father's University in Germany. Robert was said to be the most influential chemistry teacher of his time and had even taught Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the "periodic table of elements". Furthermore, Robert and Gustav Kirchhoff were the first two to use spectroscopy in a chemical analysis, which led to the discovery of the two elements known as Cesium and Rubidium. Robert had also written many letters and books, which are now held in the RSC archive, and had worked until his retirement at Heidelberg University. Bunsen had a friend named Sir Henry Roscoe who had also stated that Bunsen was a great man. However, he had never married, which allowed Robert to devote himself more to his work and research. Although Robert was a popular man to many, he unfortunately died in 1899. Robert had lost the sight in his right eye when an organic compound exploded during his research in organic chemistry. Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer was born in the year of 1825, in Taunusstien, Hesse. He had studied physics and other subjects before studying chemistry. Erlenmeyer was once enthusiastic about pharmacy, but then lost his enthusiasm for it, so much so that he took him back to the University of Gießen to study chemistry. For his doctorate, Emil did a thesis that caught the interest of Robert Bunsen. At the University of Heidelberg he had introduced the naphthalene formula and the Erlenmeyer rule of keto-enol tautomerism. In burner 18...... middle of paper ......sen, the oxygen gives up more energy to the electrons in the flame, causing the flame to heat up more and more. Therefore, the chemical reaction of methane gas reacting with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water vapor is given off by the Bunsen burner. Now we can understand that the yellow flame contains heat as a result of the oxygen that was part of the reaction, but to make the flame hotter, the percentage of oxygen that is fed to the Bunsen burner must increase. Twisting the Bunsen burner barrel makes it work better because it allows you to add oxygen, which then allows the flame to get hotter, allowing you to heat substances faster, so you can be more productive. This is because, when oxygen is added, the oxygen gives up energy to the electrons which makes it move faster, causing the flame to turn from yellow to blue.