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Job Description

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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-4031.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 49,770.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 23.00
Currently, there are 65,510 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Chemical Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Cloth Tester”

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.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

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

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