Translating

Translate a small text dedicated to nanotechnology from Russian into English:

На наших глазах фантастика становится реальностью – люди научились перемещать отдельные атомы и складывать из них, как из кубиков, устройства и механизмы необычайно малых размеров и поэтому невидимые обычным глазом. Появилась целая отрасль знаний - НАНОТЕХНОЛОГИИ, впитавшая в себя самые новые достижения физики, химии и биологии. Ученые-нанотехнологи работают с ничтожно малыми объектами, размеры которых измеряются в нанометрах.

В переводе с греческого слово «нано» означает карлик. Один нанометр (нм) – это одна миллиардная часть метра (10-9 м). Размер объектов, с которыми имеют дело нанотехнологи, лежат в диапазоне от 0,1 до 100 нм.

Translate from English into Russian:

1. Nanotechnology is an exciting area of scientific development which promises ‘more for less’. It offers ways to create smaller, cheaper, lighter and faster devices that can do more and cleverer things, use less raw materials and consume less energy.

2. There are many examples of the application of nanotechnology from the simple to the complex. For example, there are nano coatings which can repel dirt and reduce the need for harmful cleaning agents, or prevent the spread of hospital-borne infections.

3. Moving on to more complex products, a good example of the application of nanotechnology is a mobile phone, which has changed dramatically in a few years – becoming smaller and smaller, while paradoxically, growing cleverer and faster – and cheaper.

4. There is much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production.

5. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.

UNIT 11 Nanotechnology

Listening

You are going to listen to information about nanotechnology. Listen and answer questions.

In a net shell nanotechnology is the science of very ______

a. small things

b. materials

c. metals

A hundred nanometers is equivalent to about a ______ atoms.

a. 100

b. 1000

c. 1100

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