Any junior-high school kid can do that with a Bunsen burner.

NPR: Squeezing Oil Out of Stones in the Rocky Mountains

It was not until four decades later that novelists and playwrights bashed down the laboratory door, put on white coats and made themselves perfectly at home among the test tubes and the bunsen burners.

ECONOMIST: Science in fiction is not science fiction

On the main table I noticed what looked like the ragtag remains of some Physics 101 lab experiments: rusted silver balls on different inclines, distressed balloons, a stained funnel, a markered flask, a calcium-speckled Bunsen burner, iron filings and sandpaper, large magnets, and batteries that could have been bought from a Chinese immigrant on the subway.

NEWYORKER: The Region of Unlikeness