English for chemists

Section II
Упр. 1. Прочтите заглавие текста 2 В и скажите, о чем, по вашему мнению, в нем может идти речь?

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Упр. 2. Назовите значения следующих интернациональных слов:
examination, the Julian calendar, rudimentary, arrangement, vertical, horizontal, transpose, operate, bureau, visit
Упр. 3. Определите значения выделенных слов по контексту.
1. Mendeleyev set down his first ideas at breakfast. 2. He received a note about a visit to a cheese factory, but he cancelled the visit and worked on. 3. His mother operated a glass factory to keep the wolffrom
the door. 4. His mother headed for Moscow. 5. She wanted to place her son in the University of Moscow, but he was refused. 6. The government retired Mendeleyev from the University of St. Petersburg. 7. He bccame head of the Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1893 and held that post until his death.
Слова к тексту:
devise — придумывать; brainwave — осенившая кого-л. идея; card — карточка; juggle—манипулировать; satisfy—удовлетворять; пар—дремо­ та, короткий сон; go blind — ослепнуть; lease—арендовать; dash— столк­ новение
Text 2 В
Прочтите текст про себя (контрольное время чтения — 7 минут).
The Mendeleyev Story
In a long examination of the periodic table of the elements, the New Scientist for March 7 tells briefly how Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907) devised it. The Russian scientist had his brainwave, says author John Emsley, on March 1, 1869, but, bccausc the Russians were still using the Julian calendar, it was February 17 in St. Petersburg, where Mendeleyev lived then.
Mendeleyev set down his first ideas at breakfast, on a note he had received about a visit to a cheese factory that day. He cancelled the visit and worked on. He drew up several rudimentary tables, Emsley says, and then made 63 cards, one for each of the known elements. On each card he put the properties of the element that he thought most important. He juggled the cards until he had an arrangement that satisfied him, wrote it down, and went to bed. He awoke from his nap with the idea that he should arrange the elements in vertical rather than horizontal groups and transposed them accordingly.
Mendeleyev was bom in Siberia and was the last of 17 children. In the year of his birth his father went blind, and his mother leased and operated a glass factory to keep the wolf from the door. His father died in 1847, and the glass factory burned down in 1848. With this his mother headed for Moscow with Dmitry and his sister. Her idea was to place the son in the University of Moscow, but he was refused bccausc he had been bom in

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