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Robert Bunsen, an Uncommon card
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 38,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Bunsen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Bunsen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for ______ is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Answer
spectroscopy. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff. From the Robert Bunsen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Foam. Foam 72 · Chris Rogers 69 · Robert Bunsen 64 · Nicolaus Otto 59 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
- The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
- Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organic arsenic chemistry.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert Bunsen article was read about 38,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Robert Bunsen
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Robert Bunsen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.


