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WENZEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1740-1793)

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WENZEL, KARL See also:FRIEDRICH (1740-1793) , See also:German metallurgist, was See also:born at See also:Dresden in 1740. Disliking his See also:father's See also:trade of See also:bookbinding, for which he was intended, he See also:left See also:home 111 1755, and after taking lessons in See also:surgery and See also:chemistry, at See also:Amsterdam, became a See also:ship's surgeon in the Dutch service. In 1766, tired of See also:sea-See also:life, he went to study chemistry at See also:Leipzig, and afterwards devoted himself to metallurgy and See also:assaying at his native See also:place with such success that in 178o he was appointed chemist to the See also:Freiberg foundries by the elector of See also:Saxony. In 1785 he became See also:assessor to the superintending See also:board of the foundries, and in 1786 chemist to the See also:porcelain See also:works at See also:Meissen. He died at Freiberg on the 26th of See also:February 1793. In consequence of the quantitative analyses he performed of a large number of salts, he has been credited with the See also:discovery of the See also:law of neutralization ( Vorlesungen fiber See also:die chemische Verwandtschaft der Korper, 1777). But this attribution rests on a See also:mistake first made by J. J. See also:Berzelius and copied by subsequent writers, and Wenzel's published See also:work (as pointed out by G. H. See also:Hess in 184o) does not See also:warrant the conclusion that he realized the existence of any law of invariable and reciprocal proportions in the combinations of acids and bases.

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