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Job Description

Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-4031.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 49,770.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 23.00
Currently, there are 65,510 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Chemical Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Spectrographer”

Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

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Polarizers
High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
Claisen flasks
Lecture bottles
Hot air blowers
Finger pumps
Photo detectors
Tension gauges
Dessicators
Automated microviscometers
Optical pyrometers
Glass laboratory crucibles
Aneroid barometers
Cooling baths
Dust and particulate respirators
Pressure gauges
Magnetic agitators
Gas drying tubes
Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
Ultracentrifuges
Autotitrators
Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
Radioisotope fume hoods
Laboratory heating plates
Lasers
Refrigerated coolers
Gas leak detectors
Bubble flow meters
Safety glasses
Rotameters
Pirani gauges
Immersion heaters
Ultraviolet UV lamps
Reflux condensers
Exhaust hoods
U-tube manometers
Volume displacement pumps
Canister gas masks
Heating mantles
Ion exchange chromatography equipment
Abbe refractometers
Bunsen burners
Filter pumps
Steam baths
Laboratory balances
Triple beam balances
Nebulizers
Viscosity meters
Asbestos gloves
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
Personal computers
Turbidimeters
Liquid transfer pumps
pH indicators
Torsion balances
Safety showers
Laboratory blenders
Vapor monitor badges
High pressure sodium lamps
Gas chromatography equipment
Gooch crucibles
Agitation tanks
Explosion-proof fume hoods
Chromatography developing tanks
Dissolved oxygen meters
Utility clamps
Coulometers
Prisms
Ruby lasers
Automated polarimeters
Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
Flame ionization detectors FID
Monochromators
Electronic toploading balances
Rotary evaporators
Sample crushers
Plastic cuvettes
Vacuum flask traps
Graphite furnaces
Automatic pipette cleaners
Test tube clamps
Differential refractometers
Hirsch funnels
Diffusion pumps
Fire extinguishers
Metering pumps
Buchner funnels
Eyewash fountains
Bomb calorimeters
Pycnometers
Bourdon gauges
Volumetric flasks
Volumetric glass pipettes
Laminar flow burners
Unequal-arm balances
Velometers
Hydrometers
Evaporator rotators
Optical compound microscopes
Reaction flasks
Graphing calculators
Evaporating dishes
Fluid scintillation counters
Hollow cathode lamps
Gas burners
Transfer pipettes
Magnetic stirring bars
Infrared IR spectroscopes
Digital handheld thermometers
Face shields
Polarimeters
Mercury barometers
Single-pan balances
Flame photometers
Laboratory tongs
Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
Pull spring balances
Ionization gauges
Comparators
Benchtop centrifuges
Safety goggles
Automatic buret cleaners
Hazardous material protective clothing
Bimetallic strip thermometers
Geiger-Muller counters
Gravitational field indicators
Liquid chromatography equipment
Constant temperature water baths
Ball mills
Glass burets
Thermal conductivity detectors
Safety gloves
Distilling condensers
Muffle furnaces
Closed-end manometers
Dye lasers
Rheometers
Photomultiplier tubes
Titrators
Molecular stills
Laboratory centrifugal pumps
Differential scanning calorimeters
Multimeters
Computer-controlled pumps
Liquid-filled remote thermometers
Optical beamsplitting devices
Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
Voltmeters
Ammeters
Mainframe computers
Atomic emissions spectroscopes
Fluorimeters
Photocells
Water aspirators
Laboratory flasks
Radiation detectors
Chromatography microsyringes
Infrared lamps
McLeod gauges
Glass tubing
Gravity convection ovens
Beckmann thermometers
Thermocouples
Perchloric acid hoods
Desktop computers
Organic carbon analyzers
Mercury vapor lamps
Vacuum gauges
Homogenizers
Mortars and pestles
Westphal balances
Spectrophotometers
Bubble-cap fractionating columns
Lyophilizers
Drying pistols
Capillary tubing
Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
Bell jars
Cork borer sets
Cartesian manostats
Automatic burets
Deuterium lamps
Laboratory vacuum pumps
Ultraviolet UV light detectors
Mass spectrometers
Laboratory drying ovens
Meker burners
Laboratory pressing equipment

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