The Adelaide Chemical Works was a chemical and fertiliser manufacturer in Adelaide, Australia. Established on a 5½-acre site at New Thebarton on 22 July 1882 by industrialist Robert Burns Cuming, the works manufactured sulphuric acid and, from mid-1884, superphosphate for South Australian agriculture; a second works was erected at Port Adelaide in 1900 to handle bulk rock-phosphate cargoes that began arriving in 1901.
The Adelaide Chemical Works was a chemical and fertiliser manufacturer in Adelaide, Australia. Established on a 5½-acre site at New Thebarton on 22 July 1882 by industrialist Robert Burns Cuming, the works manufactured sulphuric acid and, from mid-1884, superphosphate for South Australian agriculture; a second works was erected at Port Adelaide in 1900 to handle bulk rock-phosphate cargoes that began arriving in 1901.
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