My daughter has got homework to do and has to find out who discovered the flame test?

searched the net but to no avail! And help would be much appreciated. thanks in anticipation.

My daughter has got homework to do and has to find out who discovered the flame test?

searched the net but to no avail! And help would be much appreciated. thanks in anticipation.

 

Dunno, maybe start with Robert Bunsen and go from there?

Isn't the point that she needs to find it for herself?

Try this guy 1807 in England by Sir Humphry Davy, Hope it helps.

Isn't the point that she needs to find it for herself?

 

yes but im helping her with her homework, not doing it for her

Sorry I can't help, even though I remember doing stuff like this at school.

 

What I don't understand, if you don't want to be a scientist, why would you want to know who invented the flame test? pointless information getting in the way of having fun after school, it's like when I said to my teacher why do I have to do French, If I want to go to France I will learn the basics.

Didle, no offence, but if you'd listened to some of the boring stuff & thought less during the day about after school fun, you could've possibly had a stab at a career you might've even enjoyed instead of having to help your mum. It might not be interesting but life isn't all about being interesting, sad as that seems.

Didle, no offence, but if you'd listened to some of the boring stuff & thought less during the day about after school fun, you could've possibly had a stab at a career you might've even enjoyed instead of having to help your mum. It might not be interesting but life isn't all about being interesting, sad as that seems.

 

You know he's definately going to take offence to that.

 

Your not wrong though. Didle's it's a stupid point your trying to make, learning stimulates brain development, no matter how mundane you find it. Saying that though, I always enjoyed science as one of the more interesting subjects. Also, the lack of bi-lingual speakers in the UK is embarrassing, would suggest it's taught from as soon as humanly possible.

we think now it was robert bunsen. thanks to all for your help

MickyD

I have done the usual checks, Wikipedia is always a good start.

 

I didn't find any evidence of WHO invented it. Certainly no mention of Bunsen.

 

If I was helping my kids, however, I might point them in the direction of giving more information than was required in the question to show that, while you didn't actually find the inventor, you can show that you have done some research.

Yahoo answers is always a good start.

Well said Micky, for effort A+

I have done the usual checks, Wikipedia is always a good start.

 

I didn't find any evidence of WHO invented it. Certainly no mention of Bunsen.

 

If I was helping my kids, however, I might point them in the direction of giving more information than was required in the question to show that, while you didn't actually find the inventor, you can show that you have done some research.

we tried to find it for ages, and she went to school today with various possibilities; Humphrey Davy, Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff to name but a few, so she did do lots of research but was told by her teacher it was actually Robert Boyle. None of the class had come up with his name!!!!! But at least she learnt something about other scientists.

So its not Simon Weston then?

Keith lard?

we tried to find it for ages, and she went to school today with various possibilities; Humphrey Davy, Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff to name but a few, so she did do lots of research but was told by her teacher it was actually Robert Boyle. None of the class had come up with his name!!!!! But at least she learnt something about other scientists.

 

The teacher wants shagging then. I've just scrolled through the sites associated with Robert Boyle and looked for FLAME TEST.

 

I didn't find a single reference attributing Boyle with its invention!

 

How then, would the teacher expect the research to be done unless there are one or two links from one to the other?

I just Googled Robert Boyle, Flame test and got this: http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/RBoyle.htm

I'm only 27 and there was no Google when I was at scoo. How the fucking hell we did research then

I don't know. Apparently as recently as the 1970s they had things called 'libraries.'

 

Everything's so fucking easy now isn't it. If I was a modern teacher I'd make homework tasks of

the utmost difficulty to offset against Google making everything a piece of piss for even the

stupidest child. It's probably created the bone idol epidemic we've got now in nearly everyone

who was born after about 1985.

 

'Dear Mrs Twatt, I suspect your daughter Chelsea may have plagrised from the internet the essay I asked the class

to produce on the reasons why the Spartacist uprising of 1918 failed. Such an essay could not have

been legitimately produced by such an illiterate cabbage as your daughter.'