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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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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