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。
- Unit1 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
- Unit2 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
