Spirit Lamp

An alcohol burner or spirit lamp is a piece of laboratory equipment used to produce an open flame. Alcohol burners are preferred for some uses over Bunsen burner/Alcohol blast burner for safety purposes. Their flame is limited to approximately two inches (5 centimeters) in height, with a comparatively lower temperature than the gas flame of Bunsen burner/Alcohol blast burner.

While they do not produce flames as hot as other types of burners, they are sufficiently hot for performing some chemistries, standard microbiology laboratory procedures, and can be used for flame sterilization of other laboratory equipment.