Chemical Technicians

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Bench refractometers or polarimeters (Abbe refractometers)
• Laboratory mixers (Agitation tanks)
• Ammeters
• Barometers (Aneroid barometers)
• Protective gloves (Asbestos gloves)
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers (Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes)
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers (Atomic emissions spectroscopes)
• Viscosimeters (Automated microviscometers)
• Polarimeters (Automated polarimeters)
• Pipette washers (Automatic buret cleaners)
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Automatic burets)
• Pipette washers (Automatic pipette cleaners)
• Titration equipment (Autotitrators)
• Laboratory mills (Ball mills)
• Handheld thermometer (Beckmann thermometers)
• Laboratory staining dishes or jars (Bell jars)
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Bi metallic sensors (Bimetallic strip thermometers)
• Calorimeters (Bomb calorimeters)
• Pressure indicators (Bourdon gauges)
• Flowmeters (Bubble flow meters)
• Fractionation apparatus (Bubble-cap fractionating columns)
• Laboratory funnels (Buchner funnels)
• Gas burners (Bunsen burners)
• Gas masks (Canister gas masks)
• Laboratory general purpose tubing (Capillary tubing)
• Manostats (Cartesian manostats)
• Thin layer chromatography tanks (Chromatography developing tanks)
• Chromatography syringes (Chromatography microsyringes)
• Laboratory flasks (Claisen flasks)
• Manometers (Closed-end manometers)
• Comparators
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Computer-controlled pumps)
• Water baths (Constant temperature water baths)
• Refrigerated baths (Cooling baths)
• Laboratory cork borers (Cork borer sets)
• Coulometers
• Desktop computers
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories (Dessicators)
• Arc lamps (Deuterium lamps)
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters (Differential refractometers)
• Calorimeters (Differential scanning calorimeters)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Diffusion pumps)
• Handheld thermometer (Digital handheld thermometers)
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Distilling condensers)
• Vacuum desiccators (Drying pistols)
• Respirators (Dust and particulate respirators)
• Lasers (Dye lasers)
• Electronic toploading balances
• Laboratory dishes (Evaporating dishes)
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators (Evaporator rotators)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Exhaust hoods)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Explosion-proof fume hoods)
• Eyewashers or eye wash stations (Eyewash fountains)
• Facial shields (Face shields)
• Filtering machinery (Filter pumps)
• Syringe pumps (Finger pumps)
• Fire extinguishers
• Flame ionization analyzers (Flame ionization detectors FID)
• Photometers (Flame photometers)
• Liquid scintillation counters (Fluid scintillation counters)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Fluorimeters)
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Gas burners
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatography equipment)
• Laboratory general purpose tubing (Gas drying tubes)
• Gas detectors (Gas leak detectors)
• Geiger counters (Geiger-Muller counters)
• Laboratory burets (Glass burets)
• Glass crucibles (Glass laboratory crucibles)
• Glass tubing
• Ceramic crucibles (Gooch crucibles)
• Calculators or accessories (Graphing calculators)
• Programmable tube furnaces (Graphite furnaces)
• Gravimeters (Gravitational field indicators)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Gravity convection ovens)
• Hazardous material protective apparel (Hazardous material protective clothing)
• Heating mantles or tapes (Heating mantles)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
• High pressure sodium lamps
• Laboratory funnels (Hirsch funnels)
• Arc lamps (Hollow cathode lamps)
• Homogenizers
• Hot air blowers
• Hydrometers
• Immersion heaters
• Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectroscopes)
• Infrared lamps
• Ion chromatographs (Ion exchange chromatography equipment)
• Vacuum gauges (Ionization gauges)
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Laboratory blenders)
• Laboratory centrifugal pumps
• Drying cabinets or ovens (Laboratory drying ovens)
• Laboratory flasks
• Laboratory hotplates (Laboratory heating plates)
• Laboratory presses (Laboratory pressing equipment)
• Laboratory tongs
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Laboratory vacuum hand pumps)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Gas burners (Laminar flow burners)
• Lasers
• Air or gas tanks or cylinders (Lecture bottles)
• Liquid chromatographs (Liquid chromatography equipment)
• Mass spectrometers (Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment)
• Peristaltic pumps (Liquid transfer pumps)
• Remote reading thermometers (Liquid-filled remote thermometers)
• Freezedryers or lyophilzers (Lyophilizers)
• Laboratory mixers (Magnetic agitators)
• Magnetic stirrers (Magnetic stirring bars)
• Mainframe computers
• Mass spectrometers
• Vacuum gauges (McLeod gauges)
• Gas burners (Meker burners)
• Barometers (Mercury barometers)
• Mercury vapor lamps
• Metering pumps
• Fractionation apparatus (Molecular stills)
• Monochromators
• Pestle or mortars (Mortars and pestles)
• Laboratory box furnaces (Muffle furnaces)
• Multimeters
• Laboratory sprayers (Nebulizers)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes)
• Optical beamsplitters (Optical beamsplitting devices)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Optical compound microscopes)
• Pyrometers (Optical pyrometers)
• Organic carbon analyzers
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Perchloric acid hoods)
• Personal computers
• pH meters (pH indicators)
• Ion analyzers (Photo detectors)
• Photoelectric sensors (Photocells)
• Chromatography tubing (Photomultiplier tubes)
• Vacuum gauges (Pirani gauges)
• Cuvettes (Plastic cuvettes)
• Polarimeters
• Polarizers
• Pressure indicators (Pressure gauges)
• Prisms
• Pull spring balances
• Pycnometers
• Radiation detectors
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Radioisotope fume hoods)
• Laboratory flasks (Reaction flasks)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Reflux condensers)
• Refrigerated cooling modules (Refrigerated coolers)
• Rheometers
• Rotameters
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators (Rotary evaporators)
• Lasers (Ruby lasers)
• Safety glasses
• Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
• Goggles (Safety goggles)
• Decontamination shower (Safety showers)
• Laboratory crushers or pulverizers (Sample crushers)
• Laboratory balances (Single-pan balances)
• Spectrophotometers
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories (Steam baths)
• Tensiometers (Tension gauges)
• Laboratory clamps (Test tube clamps)
• Thermal conductivity analyzers (Thermal conductivity detectors)
• Thermocouples
• Thinlayer chromatographs (Thinlayer chromatography analyzers)
• Titration equipment (Titrators)
• Laboratory balances (Torsion balances)
• Pasteur or transfer pipettes (Transfer pipettes)
• Triple beam balances
• Turbidimeters
• Manometers (U-tube manometers)
• Ultracentrifuges
• Ultraviolet UV lamps
• Chromatographic detectors (Ultraviolet UV light detectors)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes)
• Laboratory balances (Unequal-arm balances)
• Laboratory clamps (Utility clamps)
• Laboratory flasks (Vacuum flask traps)
• Vacuum gauges
• Multi gas monitors (Vapor monitor badges)
• Air velocity and temperature monitors (Velometers)
• Viscosimeters (Viscosity meters)
• Voltage or current meters (Voltmeters)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Volume displacement pumps)
• Laboratory flasks (Volumetric flasks)
• Volumetric pipettes (Volumetric glass pipettes)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Water aspirators)
• Laboratory balances (Westphal balances)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Laboratory information management system LIMS software

• Data base user interface and query software

• Database software

• Electronic mail software

• Email software

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel
• Spreadsheet software

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word
• Word processing software

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)