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 * Article title: Accum, Friedrich Christian
 * Author: Rodwell, George Farrer
 * LEAD: ACCUM, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN (1769–1838), chemist, was born in Buckebourg, in Westphalia, in 1769. In 1793 he came to London, and engaged in some science work, which led to the delivery of a course of lectures on chemistry and physics in 1803 at the Surrey Institute, and to the publication in that and the following years of several treatises on chemistry and mineralogy, including a ‘System of Chemistry’ in 1803, an ‘Essay on the Analysis of Minerals’ in 1804, and a ‘Manual of Analytical Mineralogy’ in 1808.
 * LEAD: ACCUM, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN (1769–1838), chemist, was born in Buckebourg, in Westphalia, in 1769. In 1793 he came to London, and engaged in some science work, which led to the delivery of a course of lectures on chemistry and physics in 1803 at the Surrey Institute, and to the publication in that and the following years of several treatises on chemistry and mineralogy, including a ‘System of Chemistry’ in 1803, an ‘Essay on the Analysis of Minerals’ in 1804, and a ‘Manual of Analytical Mineralogy’ in 1808.
 * LEAD: ACCUM, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN (1769–1838), chemist, was born in Buckebourg, in Westphalia, in 1769. In 1793 he came to London, and engaged in some science work, which led to the delivery of a course of lectures on chemistry and physics in 1803 at the Surrey Institute, and to the publication in that and the following years of several treatises on chemistry and mineralogy, including a ‘System of Chemistry’ in 1803, an ‘Essay on the Analysis of Minerals’ in 1804, and a ‘Manual of Analytical Mineralogy’ in 1808.

Works

 * System of Chemistry (1803)
 * Essay on the Analysis of Minerals (1804)
 * Manual of Analytical Mineralogy (1808)
 * Practical Treatise on Gas Light (1815; 3rd ed. 1816)
 * Description of the Process of manufacturing Coal Gas (1819; 2nd ed. 1820)
 * Chemical Amusement (London, 1817, 4th edit. 1819)
 * Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons (London, 1820, 2nd edit. 1820)
 * Physische und chemische Beschaffenheit der Baumaterialen (Berlin, 1826)
 * Crystallography (London, 1813)
 * Chemical Reagents (London, 1816)
 * Chalybeate Spring at Thetford (1819)
 * Brewing (London, 1820)
 * Art of making Wine (London, 1820)
 * Culinary Chemistry (London, 1821)
 * Art of making wholesome Bread (London, 1821).