The practical application of chemical principles and processes to engineering problems and the design of chemical systems and equipment.
From 'chemico-' (chemical) + 'engineering' (from Latin ingenium 'talent, device'). This field formalized in the 19th century as chemistry moved from laboratory to factory.
Chemicoengineering was born in the 1800s when dye makers and fertilizer producers realized that understanding chemistry in a lab flask was completely different from scaling it up to feed millions!
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