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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.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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