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WENZEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1740-1793) , German metallurgist, was born at Dresden in 1740. Disliking his father's trade
home 111 1755, and after taking lessons in surgery and chemistry , at Amsterdam
chemistry at Leipzig
chemist to the Freiberg foundries by the elector of Saxony. In 1785 he became assessor to the superintending board of the foundries, and in 1786 chemist to the porcelain
In consequence of the quantitative analyses he performed of a large number of salts, he has been credited with the discovery of the law of neutralization ( Vorlesungen fiber die chemische Verwandtschaft der Korper, 1777). But this attribution rests on a mistake
Berzelius and copied by subsequent writers, and Wenzel's published work
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