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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Spectrographer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Spectrographer” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Spectrographer” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: 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.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

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

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