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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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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