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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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