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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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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