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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈbʊnzn̩]; 30 March 1811 [a] – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist.He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. [11]
This implicitly puts the value of compounds' other constituents, and the cost of extraction of the element, at zero. ... Rubidium: 1.532: 90 (2.493 ...
In 1860, the unexpected appearance of sky-blue and dark red was observed in spectral emissions by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, leading to the discovery of two alkali metals, caesium and rubidium (dark red). [4] [1] Today, this low-cost method is used in secondary education to teach students to detect metals in samples qualitatively. [2]
It is the major source of the alkali metal rubidium. [13] In 1861, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff extracted 150 kg (330 lb) of lepidolite to yield a few grams of rubidium salts for analysis, and therefore discovered the new element rubidium. [14] [15] It occurs in granite pegmatites, in some high-temperature quartz veins, greisens and granites.
Rubidium is a chemical element; it has symbol Rb and atomic number 37. It is a very soft, whitish-grey solid in the alkali metal group, similar to potassium and caesium. [9] Rubidium is the first alkali metal in the group to have a density higher than water.
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award is a prize for "outstanding achievements" in the field of analytical spectroscopy. It has been awarded since 1990 by the German Working Group for Applied Spectroscopy, and is endowed with €2500 by PerkinElmer, Germany. [1] [2] The prize is named in honor of chemist Robert Bunsen and physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
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The rubidium content in minerals is often calculated and quoted in terms of Rb 2 O. In reality, the rubidium is typically present as a component of (actually, an impurity in) silicate or aluminosilicate. A major source of rubidium is lepidolite, KLi 2 Al(Al,Si) 3 O 10 (F,OH) 2, wherein Rb sometimes replaces K. Rb 2 O is a yellow colored solid.