Wenzel, Carl Friedrich

Carl Friedrich Wenzel, 1740-1793. German physician and chemist. Chief assessor of the Freiberg mines and later chemist at the Meissen porcelain works. Author of The Doctrine of the Affinity of Substances, a work that deals primarily with chemical proportions. He determined quantitatively the amounts of various acids necessary to neutralize given quantities of plant alkali (KOH) and mineral alkali (NaOH). [Pg.759]

Windeblich, Rudolf, Carl Friedrich Wenzel, 1740-1793, J. Chem. Educ.,... [Pg.775]

W. Gimus, 100 Jahre aus der Geschichte der physikalischen Chemie - von Johann Gottschalk Wallerius und Carl Friedrich Wenzel zu Svante Arrhenius... [Pg.143]

Franz-Karl Achard, Carl Friedrich Wenzel, Richard Kirwan, Laplace and Lavoisier, and John Elliot offered various schemes to this end. ... [Pg.269]

Carl Friedrich Wenzel (Dresden, 1740-Freiberg, 26 February 1793) learnt medicine and surgery in Amsterdam and until 1766 was a ship s surgeon in the service of the Dutch navy. He studied chemistry and metallurgy in Leipzig, in 1780 became director of the Freiberg mines, and in 1786 chemist to the Saxon Meissen porcelain factory. All Wenzel s books are scarce ... [Pg.773]

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