Burns Definition

Burns Sentence Examples

• It burns with a pale blue flame, forming sulphur dioxide and water.

• This mixture burns with a green flame forming boron trioxide; whilst boron is deposited on passing the gas mixture through a hot tube, or on depressing a cold surface in the gas flame.

• A mixture of carbon bisulphide vapour and nitric oxide burns with a very intense blue-coloured flame, which is very rich in the violet or actinic rays.

• In front of Greyfriars church stands a marble statue of Burns, unveiled in 1882, and there is also a monument to Charles, third duke of Queensberry.

• It burns with a pale blue flame to form carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide.