Alcohol burner

An alcohol burner or spirit lamp is a piece of laboratory equipment used to produce an open flame.

[2][3] 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.

[4][5] A small alcohol burner is also preferred for camping when the need for fire is modest.

It burns the alcohol vapor that rises due to the heat from the flame through the holes on the top perimeter of the container.

Typical fuel is denatured alcohol, methanol, or isopropanol.

The burner's flame is capped like a candle to extinguish it.
A small amount of liquid is boiling above the alcohol burner.