本书用英语介绍了一般科技论文的写法，包括标题、摘要、文献等，同时介绍了从事化学工作的基础知识，如实验室工作的注意事项、安全要求、反应的跟踪、产物分离和表征等，还介绍了无机化学、有机化学、物理化学、分析化学、环境化学和生物化学等专业知识。通过对本书的学习，可基本掌握化学专业英语的语音和一些构词规律，可熟记约3000个专业英语词汇，理解一些语法概念，从而为撰写专业英语稿件和进行国际学术交流打下坚实的基础。
本书可供化学、化工和材料类专业的学生使用，也可作为研究生、教师及相关领域研究人员的学习参考书。

Unit 1 What is Chemistry
Text 1 The Periodic Table and Periodic Properties
Text 2 Borates in Industrial Use
Text 3 What is Chemistry
Unit 2 Molecular Structure
Text 1 Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
Text 2 Drawing Lewis Structures
Text 3 The Discoverer of X-ray
Unit3 Analys is in Chemistry
Text 1 Common Analytical Problems
Text 2 Analytical Chemistry and Problems in Society
Text 3 Qualitative Organic Analysis
Unit 4 The Mechanism of Chemical Reactions
Text 1 Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics
Text 2 What is a Reversible Reaction
Text3 Activation Energy
Unit5 What is Liquid
Text 1 What is a Liquid
Text 2 Ionic Liquids
Text 3 Solution
Unit 6 The Narue of Chemical Substances
Text 1 Naming Chemical Substances
Text 2 Nomenclature of Acyclic Hydrocarbons
Text 3 Molecules with Silly or Unusual (or Suggestive) Names
Unit 7 Titrimetric Methods of Analysis
Text 1 Preparing Solutions
Text 2 Volumetric Analysis
Text 3 Titrimetric Methods of Analysis
Unit 8 Heat Transfer in Chemical Industry
Text 1 Heat Transfer
Text 2 Heat Exchanger
Text 3 Chemical Engineering
Unit 9 Chemistry and Electricity
Text 1 Chemistry and Electricity
Text 2 Battery
Text 3 Electrical Double-layer
Unit 10 Chemistry and Materials
Text 1 The Chemistry of Materials
Text 2 Development of a Ceramics of a Ceramics Industry
Text 3 The Value of Transistors
Unit 11 Chemical Spectrum
Text 1 Molecular Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Spectra
Text 2 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Text 3 Infrared Spectroscopy
Unit 12 Coordination Chemistry
Text 1 Introduction to Coordination Chemistry
Text 2 The Chemistry of Transition Metals
Text 3 Synthesis and Property about the Heterocylic Ligands
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