calorimeter: Quick Facts

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Labeled diagram showing a cross section of a bomb calorimeter, with components including an outer insulating jacket, water-filled bucket, heater, steel bomb containing the sample and ignition coil, oxygen supply, thermometer, and stirrer.

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Robert Bunsen

Robert Bunsen

German chemist

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H.L. Callendar

British scientist

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Sir Charles Vernon Boys

British physicist and inventor

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