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19-4041.02 — Geological Sample Test Technicians

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Tools

Bi distillation units
  • Water distillation units
Calorimeters
Conductivity meters
  • Conductivity indicators
  • Terrain conductivity meters
Darkfield microscopes
  • Phase contrast microscopes
Desktop computers
Digital cameras
Dissolved oxygen meters
Distance meters
  • Electronic distance meters
Dropping pipettes
  • Digital micropipettes
  • Glass dropping pipettes
Drying cabinets or ovens
  • Laboratory drying ovens
Electronic toploading balances
  • Top-loading electronic balances
Extracting equipment for laboratories
  • Microwave digestion systems
Fluorescent microscopes
  • Fluorescence microscopes
Gas chromatographs
  • Gas chromatography equipment
Glass crucibles
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
Gravimeters
  • Gravitational field indicators
High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
Hydrometers
  • Digital hydrometers
Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers
  • Inductively coupled plasma ICP optical emission spectrometers
Infrared spectrometers
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
Jaw crushers
Laboratory bailers
  • Water sampling bailers
Laboratory balances
  • Electronic laboratory balances
Laboratory beakers
  • Glass beakers
Laboratory burets
  • General purpose burets
Laboratory crushers or pulverizers
  • Chipmunk crushers
  • Laboratory pulverizers
  • Rotary pulverizers
  • Shatterboxes
Laboratory flasks
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
  • Volumetric flasks
Laboratory funnels
  • Glass funnels
Laboratory graduated cylinders
  • Glass graduated cylinders
Laboratory sifting equipment
  • Sieve shakers
Laboratory vacuum pumps
Magnetic stirrers
  • Heated magnetic stirrers
Magnetometer geophysical instruments
  • Cryogenic magnetometers
  • Proton magnetometers
  • Spinner magnetometers
Mass spectrometers
Multi gas monitors
  • Carbon hydrogen nitrogen CHN analyzers
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Organic carbon analyzers
  • Dissolved organic carbon analyzers
Peristaltic pumps
  • Groundwater sampling peristaltic pumps
Personal computers
pH meters
  • Digital pH meters
Polarizing microscopes
  • Binocular polarizing microscopes
Portable data input terminals
  • Portable dataloggers
Pressure sensors
  • Piezometers
Radarbased surveillance systems
  • Ground penetrating radar GPR systems
Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
  • Automatic burets
Rock cutters
  • Rock saws
Salinity meter
  • Dissolved salt meters
Scanning electron microscopes
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
Seismic recorders or seismographs
  • Digital seismographs
Single gas monitors
  • Digital chlorine testers
Soil core sampling apparatus
  • Sample microsplitters
Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
  • X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
Spectrophotometers
  • Fluorescence spectrophotometers
  • Optical particle detectors
  • Ultraviolet-Visible UV/VIS spectrophotometers
Still cameras
  • 35 millimeter cameras
Sulfur dioxide analyzers or detectors
  • Total sulfur analyzers
Test sieves
  • Laboratory sieves
Turbidimeters
X ray diffraction equipment
  • Single crystal x ray diffractometers

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • Landmark Graphics GeoGraphix software
  • Parallel Geoscience SPW software
  • Seismic Micro-Technology KINGDOM
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • Midland Valley 2DMove
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
  • Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
Map creation software
  • Clark Labs IDRISI Andes
  • Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS* software
  • Golden Software Surfer
  • Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
  • Martin D Adamiker's TruFlite
  • Surface III
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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