chemical engineering
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- noun
- /ˈkɛmɪkəl ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪrɪŋ/
- Specialized
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ingeniería química
- The project showcased innovative techniques in chemical engineering that improved production efficiency.
- chemical engineering students
- chemical engineering and environmental
I would try to focus less on the chemical engineering science and problems that involve those.
- I would try to focus less on the chemical engineering science and problems that involve those.
Examples
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Dan moved here four years ago to enter the doctoral program in chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
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My brother holds a PhD in chemical engineering.
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This is the kind of problem that chemical engineers spend their lives on.
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Will the test contain chemical engineering material like last year's test?
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One of our finest examples of chemical engineering.
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Hi, I'm a chemical engineering student.
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My son is a recent college graduate majoring in chemical engineering.
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The irony is bitter, for my uncle was a chemical engineer, a specialist, in fact, in fuels.
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What Colin and Brooke achieved in Tahiti was actually quite an extraordinary feat of chemical engineering.
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"The drug can bypass the stomach and the intestine and get into the bloodstream to target therapeutic sites," said Nicholas Peppas, professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, and pharmaceutics at The University of Texas.
Academic text (2004)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'chemical' (relating to chemistry) modifying 'engineering' (the applied science/discipline), so a learner who knows both words will understand this refers to the branch of engineering that applies chemistry. This adjectival-nominal composition is cross-linguistically common and follows a straightforward compositional pattern, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Chemical engineering comes from joining chemical (about chemistry) and engineering (designing machines and processes). Imagine a chemist and an engineer working together to turn a lab idea into a factory method, and that image explains why the term means 'designing and running processes and machines to make chemicals and other products' today.