Vocabulary

1. to depend on – зависеть от

2. shelter – кров, укрытие

3. to supply - поставлять

4. fur - мех

5. rubber - резина

6. starch - крахмал

7. fragility - хрупкость

8. attempt - попытка

9. to govern - управлять

10. coating - покрытие

11. moisture - влага

12. to support - поддерживать

13. fatty - жирный

14. to investigate - исследовать

15. solution - раствор

16. to reveal – открывать, обнаруживать

17. incredibly - невероятно

18. chain – цепь

19. fibre - волокно

20. numerous - многочисленный

21. to lead – вести приводить

22.to precipitate – выпадать в осадок

II. Выполните упражнения

1. Выберите подходящий для текста заголовок и обоснуйте свой выбор.

• The Age of Plastics.

• The Importance of Proteins.

• The Nature of Polymeric Materials.

• Man-made Polymers.

2. Ответьте на вопросы

1. What does the life depend on?

2. Why does life depend upon organic compounds?

3. What is the list of materials needed for life?

4. What do organic polymers include?

5. What have modern methods of physical and chemical analyses un­covered?

6. What products appeared on the basis of the discovery of polymers?

7. What properties do synthetic polymers possess?

8. Did people use natural polymers in ancient times?

9. What were those polymers?

3. Дайте химические термины к следующим определениям (определение переведите).

1. Any of large group of organic compounds found in all living organ­isms.

2. A synthetic or naturally occurring polymer used in making plastics.

3. A polysaccharide that consists of a long unbranched chain of glu­cose units.

4. A liquid that dissolves another substance or substances to form a so­lution.

5. A process of boiling a liquid and condensing and collecting a va­pour.

6. A suspension of small particles produced in a liquid by chemical re­action.

7. A homogeneous mixture of a liquid with a gas or solid.

4. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на … обороты

1. Thousands of years ago stars were believed to govern the fate of men. 2. Scientists are known to agree that our universe is fundamentally dependent on two factors, one of which proves to be matter, the other energy. 3. The scien­tist found the atom to have, first of all a nucleus; the nuc­leus was found to be composed of the protons and neutrons.

4. Of all the available building materials, rock and stone are known to be traditionally associated with permanence.

5. The organic materials with the notable exception of wood appeared to be largely a development of the twentieth cen­tury. 6. We know metals to be extracted from natural ores, which of course are also ceramic materials. 7. The metals turn out not to be as hard as the ceramic materials, but ceramic materials have been stated to be very brittle. 8. Al­though neither hydrogen nor helium proved to be now com­mercially produced from air, it is appropriate to mention that neither liquid hydrogen nor liquid helium can be trans­ported in the type of equipment used for liquid oxygen, ni­trogen, and argon. 9. As the field of chemical engineering developed, physical operations have been found to be con­venient to classify into a number of "Unit Operations", which could be separately studied and investigated.