Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for purposes, such as 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.

Other names for Chemical Technicians: Analysis Tester, Assayer, Assayer Helper, Bleach Analyst, Cement Tester Assistant, Chemical Analytical Sampler, Chemical Engineering Technician, Chemical Laboratory Assistant, Chemical Laboratory Technician, Chemical Laboratory Tester, Chemical Research Worker, Chemical Technician, Chemical Tester, Chemist Assistant, Chemist Helper, Chemistry Research Assistant, Cloth Tester, Color Consultant, Color Maker, Color Maker Formulator, Color Matcher, Color Tester, Colorist, Colorist Formulator, Concrete Analyst, Concrete Technician, Concrete Tester, Control Analyst, Cosmetic Chemist, Criminalist, Dry Color Tester, Dye Colorist Formulator, Dye Expert, Dye Lab Technician, Fiber Analyst, Field Laboratory Operator, Flue Gas Analyst, Forensic Chemist, Formulation Technician, Formulator, Formulator Compounder, Gold Assayer, Grey Goods Tester, Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst), Laboratory Assistant, Laboratory Chemical Assistant, Laboratory Cureman, Laboratory Supervisor, Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech), Laboratory Tester (Lab Tester), Laboratory Worker, Materials Analyst, Paint Formulator, Paint Laboratory Technician, Paint Technician, Paint Tester, Perfumer, Plastic Technician, Polymer Tester, Pyrotechnist, Rayon Tester, Research and Development Technician, Research Associate, Research Technician, Rubber Compounder Formulator, Spectrograph Operator, Spectrographer, Spectroscopist, Textile Colorist Formulator, Textile Technologist, Viscosity Inspector, Viscosity Worker, Water Analyst,

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

• Polarimeters
• Pipette washers
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
• Pipette washers
• Titration equipment
• Laboratory mills
• Handheld thermometer
• Laboratory staining dishes or jars
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Bi metallic sensors
• Calorimeters
• Pressure indicators
• Flowmeters
• Fractionation apparatus
• Laboratory funnels
• Gas burners
• Gas masks
• Laboratory general purpose tubing
• Manostats
• Thin layer chromatography tanks
• Chromatography syringes
• Laboratory flasks
• Manometers
• Comparators
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Water baths
• Refrigerated baths
• Laboratory cork borers
• Coulometers
• Desktop computers
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories
• Arc lamps
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters
• Calorimeters
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Handheld thermometer
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers
• Vacuum desiccators
• Respirators
• Lasers
• Electronic toploading balances
• Laboratory dishes
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Eyewashers or eye wash stations
• Facial shields
• Filtering machinery
• Syringe pumps
• Fire extinguishers
• Flame ionization analyzers
• Photometers
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
• Infrared spectrometers
• Gas burners
• Gas chromatographs
• Laboratory general purpose tubing
• Gas detectors
• Geiger counters
• Laboratory burets
• Glass crucibles
• Glass tubing
• Ceramic crucibles
• Calculators or accessories
• Programmable tube furnaces
• Gravimeters
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
• Hazardous material protective apparel
• Heating mantles or tapes
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
• High pressure sodium lamps
• Laboratory funnels
• Arc lamps
• Homogenizers
• Hot air blowers
• Hydrometers
• Immersion heaters
• Infrared spectrometers
• Infrared lamps
• Ion chromatographs
• Vacuum gauges
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
• Laboratory centrifugal pumps
• Drying cabinets or ovens
• Laboratory flasks
• Laboratory hotplates
• Laboratory presses
• Laboratory tongs
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Gas burners
• Lasers
• Air or gas tanks or cylinders
• Liquid chromatographs
• Mass spectrometers
• Peristaltic pumps
• Remote reading thermometers
• Freezedryers or lyophilzers
• Laboratory mixers
• Magnetic stirrers
• Mainframe computers
• Mass spectrometers
• Vacuum gauges
• Gas burners
• Barometers
• Mercury vapor lamps
• Metering pumps
• Fractionation apparatus
• Monochromators
• Pestle or mortars
• Laboratory box furnaces
• Multimeters
• Laboratory sprayers
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
• Optical beamsplitters
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Pyrometers
• Organic carbon analyzers
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Personal computers
• pH meters
• Ion analyzers
• Photoelectric sensors
• Chromatography tubing
• Vacuum gauges
• Cuvettes
• Polarimeters
• Polarizers
• Pressure indicators
• Prisms
• Pull spring balances
• Pycnometers
• Radiation detectors
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Laboratory flasks
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers
• Refrigerated cooling modules
• Rheometers
• Rotameters
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators
• Lasers
• Safety glasses
• Protective gloves
• Goggles
• Decontamination shower
• Laboratory crushers or pulverizers
• Laboratory balances
• Spectrophotometers
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories
• Tensiometers
• Laboratory clamps
• Thermal conductivity analyzers
• Thermocouples
• Thinlayer chromatographs
• Titration equipment
• Laboratory balances
• Pasteur or transfer pipettes
• Triple beam balances
• Turbidimeters
• Manometers
• Ultracentrifuges
• Ultraviolet UV lamps
• Chromatographic detectors
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory clamps
• Laboratory flasks
• Vacuum gauges
• Multi gas monitors
• Air velocity and temperature monitors
• Viscosimeters
• Voltage or current meters
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laboratory flasks
• Volumetric pipettes
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laboratory balances
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters
• Laboratory mixers
• Ammeters
• Barometers
• Protective gloves
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers
• Viscosimeters

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