教材由五个单元内容组成：第一单元是化学基础知识；第二单元是化工基本原理；第三单元是化学工业与技术；第四单元是相关知识；第五单元是化工产品与检测。每个单元均由4组(第五单元为2组)课文与阅读材料构成并配有相应的习题、短文翻译，书后附有练习答案与参考译文。适用于高职高专院校和其他院校化学、化工类专业及其相关专业的专业英语教材，也可作为有关工程技术人员的参考用书。

本书是普通高等教育“十五”国家级规划教材。

教材由五个单元内容组成：第一单元是化学基础知识；第二单元是化工基本原理；第三单元是化学工业与技术；第四单元是相关知识；第五单元是化工产品与检测。每个单元均由4组(第五单元为2组)课文与阅读材料构成并配有相应的习题、短文翻译，书后附有练习答案与参考译文。

本教材是基于高职高专教育并适应本科教育的教学特点和人才培养模式及其课程体系改革的需要编写的，适用于高职高专院校和其他院校化学、化工类专业及其相关专业的专业英语教材，也可作为有关工程技术人员的参考用书。

UNIT 1 BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF CHEMISTRY

Lesson 1 Acid, Base, and Salt

Reading Material: Names, Symbols, and Atomic Numbers / Masses of the Elements

Lesson 2 Naming Organic Compounds

Reading Material: About Temperature

Lesson 3 Catalyst and Catalysis

Reading Material: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Lesson 4 Re-Crystallization Techniques

Reading Material: Laboratory Hazards, Safety, and Prevention

UNIT 2 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Lesson 5 Heat Transfer

Reading Material: Fluids and Pumps

Lesson 6 Liquid-Liquid Extraction

Reading Material: Separating Mixtures

Lesson 7 Distillation

Reading Material: Plate Columns and Packed Columns

Lesson 8 Adsorption

Reading Material: Ion Exchange

UNIT 3 CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY

Lesson 9 The Anatomy of a Chemical Manufacturing Process.

Reading Material: The Fine and Specialty Chemicals

Lesson 10 Haber-Bosch Process for the Production of Ammonia

Reading Material: Sulfuric Acid

Lesson 11 Oil Refining

Reading Material: Rocket Propellants

Lesson 12 Soaps and Detergents

Reading Material: Synthesis of Surfactants

UNIT 4 RELATED KNOWLEDGE

Lesson 13 Polymers

Reading Material: Plastics

Lesson 14 Vitamins

Reading Material: Antibiotics

Lesson 15 Electrolytic Processes of Metals

Reading Material: Corrosion of Metal and Its Prevention

Lesson 16 Wastewater Treatment Technology

Reading Material: Water Pollution and Society

UNIT 5 THE CHEMICAL PRODUCT AND ITS DETERMINATION

Lesson 17 PTFE--Product Specifications

Reading Material: Glycerin

Lesson 18 Thin Layer Chromatography

Reading Material: Analysis of Vitamin C

参考文献

练习答案与参考译文