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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 “Inorganic Chemical Technician”

Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.
Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.
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.
Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.
Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.
Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.
Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.
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.
Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.
Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.
Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.
Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.
Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

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

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