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Study the chemical composition and physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.
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Abilities
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Written Comprehension| | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
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Inductive Reasoning| | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
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Written Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
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Deductive Reasoning| | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
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Oral Comprehension| | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
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Category Flexibility| | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
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Information Ordering| | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
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Oral Expression| | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
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Near Vision| | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
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Memorization| | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. |
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Problem Sensitivity| | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
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Originality| | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
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Number Facility| | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
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Mathematical Reasoning| | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
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Speed of Closure| | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
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Fluency of Ideas| | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
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Flexibility of Closure| | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
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Visualization| | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
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Arm-Hand Steadiness| | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
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Perceptual Speed| | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
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Finger Dexterity| | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
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Selective Attention| | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
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Time Sharing| | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
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Control Precision| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
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Manual Dexterity| | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
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Trunk Strength| | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. |
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Visual Color Discrimination| | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
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Far Vision| | The ability to see details at a distance. |
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Speech Clarity| | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
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Wrist-Finger Speed| | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. |
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Extent Flexibility| | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
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Response Orientation| | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. |
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Depth Perception| | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. |
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Multilimb Coordination| | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
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Auditory Attention| | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
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Reaction Time| | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
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Speech Recognition| | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
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Glare Sensitivity| | The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. |
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Static Strength| | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
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Hearing Sensitivity| | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
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Night Vision| | The ability to see under low light conditions. |
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Sound Localization| | The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. |
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Spatial Orientation| | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. |
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Speed of Limb Movement| | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. |
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Gross Body Coordination| | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. |
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Peripheral Vision| | The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. |
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Rate Control| | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
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Stamina| | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. |
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Dynamic Flexibility| | The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
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Explosive Strength| | The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. |
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Gross Body Equilibrium| | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. |
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Dynamic Strength| | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. |
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Interests
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Investigative| | Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally. |
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Realistic| | Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others. |
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Conventional| | Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow. |
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Artistic| | Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules. |
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Enterprising| | Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business. |
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First Interest High-Point| | Primary-Rank Descriptiveness |
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Social| | Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. |
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Second Interest High-Point| | Secondary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness |
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Knowledge
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Biology| | Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
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Chemistry| | Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. |
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Mathematics| | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
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Physics| | Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes. |
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English Language| | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
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Engineering and Technology| | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
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Building and Construction| | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. |
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Computers and Electronics| | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
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Clerical| | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. |
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Mechanical| | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
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Medicine and Dentistry| | Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. |
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Communications and Media| | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. |
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Design| | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
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Telecommunications| | Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. |
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Public Safety and Security| | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
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Wages
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| District of Columbia | $52,730.00 |
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| North Carolina | $66,420.00 |
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Related Careers
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Biological Technicians| | Assist biological and medical scientists in laboratories. Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, make observations, and calculate and record results. May analyze organic substances, such as blood, food, and drugs. |
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Environmental Scientists & Specialists, Including Health| | Conduct research or perform investigation for the purpose of identifying, abating, or eliminating sources of pollutants or hazards that affect either the environment or the health of the population. Utilizing knowledge of various scientific disciplines may collect, synthesize, study, report, and take action based on data derived from measurements or observations of air, food, soil, water, and other sources. |
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Food Science Technicians| | Perform standardized qualitative and quantitative tests to determine physical or chemical properties of food or beverage products. |
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Foresters| | Manage forested lands for economic, recreational, and conservation purposes. May inventory the type, amount, and location of standing timber, appraise the timber's worth, negotiate the purchase, and draw up contracts for procurement. May determine how to conserve wildlife habitats, creek beds, water quality, and soil stability, and how best to comply with environmental regulations. May devise plans for planting and growing new trees, monitor trees for healthy growth, and determine the best time for harvesting. Develop forest management plans for public and privately-owned forested lands. |
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Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists & Geographers| | Study the composition, structure, and other physical aspects of the earth. May use geological, physics, and mathematics knowledge in exploration for oil, gas, minerals, or underground water; or in waste disposal, land reclamation, or other environmental problems. May study the earth's internal composition, atmospheres, oceans, and its magnetic, electrical, and gravitational forces. Includes mineralogists, crystallographers, paleontologists, stratigraphers, geodesists, and seismologists. |
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Microbiologists| | Investigate the growth, structure, development, and other characteristics of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, algae, or fungi. Includes medical microbiologists who study the relationship between organisms and disease or the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms. |
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Soil & Plant Scientists| | Conduct research in breeding, physiology, production, yield, and management of crops and agricultural plants, their growth in soils, and control of pests; or study the chemical, physical, biological, and mineralogical composition of soils as they relate to plant or crop growth. May classify and map soils and investigate effects of alternative practices on soil and crop productivity. |
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Soil Conservationists| | Plan and develop coordinated practices for soil erosion control, soil and water conservation, and sound land use. |
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Skills
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Science| | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. |
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Reading Comprehension| | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
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Writing| | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
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Active Learning| | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
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Mathematics| | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
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Critical Thinking| | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
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Complex Problem Solving| | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
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Equipment Selection| | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
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Judgment and Decision Making| | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
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Quality Control Analysis| | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
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Monitoring| | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
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Systems Analysis| | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
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Operations Analysis| | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
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Learning Strategies| | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
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Systems Evaluation| | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
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Active Listening| | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
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Operation and Control| | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
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Speaking| | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
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Programming| | Writing computer programs for various purposes. |
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Operation Monitoring| | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
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Instructing| | Teaching others how to do something. |
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Coordination| | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
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Time Management| | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
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Equipment Maintenance| | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
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Management of Material Resources| | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
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Persuasion| | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
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Technology Design| | Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs. |
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Social Perceptiveness| | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
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Troubleshooting| | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
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Installation| | Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. |
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Repairing| | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
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Management of Financial Resources| | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
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Management of Personnel Resources| | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
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Negotiation| | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
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Service Orientation| | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
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Tools
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| Amino acid analyzers |
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| Analytical balances |
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| Mettler balances |
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| Benchtop centrifuges |
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| Continuous flow centrifuges |
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| Cytospin centrifuges |
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| Megafuge centrifuges |
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| Tabletop centrifuges |
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| Binocular light compound microscopes |
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| Large upright microscopes |
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| Microscopes |
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| Transillumination microscopes |
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| Video enhanced differential interference contrast microscopes |
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| Calorimeters |
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| Differential scanning calorimeters |
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| Isothermal titration calorimeters ITC |
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| Microcalorimeters |
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| Camera controllers |
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| Video positioning equipment |
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| Chemistry analyzers |
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| Hemoglobin analyzers |
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| Chilling units or cold water circulators |
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| Circulating water cooling systems |
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| Cryogenic or liquid nitrogen freezers |
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| Biofreezers |
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| Cryogenic freezers |
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| Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers |
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| Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers |
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| Desktop computers |
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| Digital camcorders or video cameras |
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| Phosphorimager video cameras |
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| Dropping pipettes |
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| Pipettes |
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| Dry baths or heating blocks |
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| Heat blocks |
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| Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators |
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| CO2 incubators |
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| Electroencephalography EEG units or accessories |
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| Electroencephalography EEG equipment |
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| Electron guns |
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| Phosphorimagers |
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| Electron microscopes |
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| Cryomicroscopes |
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| X ray microscopes |
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| Electronic toploading balances |
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| Sartorius balances |
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| Top-loading balances |
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| Electrophoresis system power supplies |
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| Electrophoresis power supplies |
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| Flame ionization analyzers |
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| Flame ionization detectors |
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| Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators |
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| Heat incubators |
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| Incubators |
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| Freeze dryers or lyopholizers |
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| Flexi-dry lyophilizers |
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| Freeze dryers |
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| Vacuum freezers |
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| Fume hoods or cupboards |
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| Chemical fume hoods |
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| Gamma counters |
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| Auto gamma counters |
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| Gas chromatographs |
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| Gel boxes |
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| Gel documentation systems |
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| Automated electrophoresis equipment |
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| Heat tracing equipment |
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| Thermal imagers |
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| Heating mantles or tapes |
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| Heating mantles |
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| Hematology or chemistry mixers |
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| Peptide synthesizers |
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| High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography |
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| High-pressure liquid chromatographs |
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| Homogenizers |
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| Infrared spectrometers |
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| Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes |
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| Injectors |
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| Microinjectors |
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| Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis |
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| Capillary electrophoresis equipment |
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| Inverted microscopes |
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| Ion analyzers |
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| Ionometers |
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| Irradiation gamma sources |
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| Gamma ray irradiators |
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| Laboratory adapters or connectors or fittings |
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| Glassware adaptors |
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| Laboratory balances |
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| Balances |
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| Specific gravity balances |
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| Laboratory beakers |
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| Beakers |
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| Laboratory flasks |
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| Erlenmeyer flasks |
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| Laboratory funnels |
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| Filtering funnels |
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| Funnels |
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| Laboratory graduated cylinders |
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| Graduated cylinders |
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| Laboratory heat exchange condensers |
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| Glassware condensers |
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| Laboratory hotplates |
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| Hot plates |
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| Laboratory mechanical convection ovens |
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| Convection ovens |
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| Laboratory vacuum pumps |
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| Vacuum pumps |
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| Laminar flow cabinets or stations |
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| Laminar flow hoods |
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| Laser printers |
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| Lasers |
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| Argon lasers |
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| Krypton lasers |
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| Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers |
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| Sapphire lasers |
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| Solid state diode lasers |
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| Light scattering equipment |
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| Laser Doppler zeta potential analyzers |
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| Laser particle sizers |
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| Light scattering devices |
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| Multi-angle elastic-light scattering systems for measuring molecular weights |
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| Liquid scintillation counters |
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| Scintillation counters |
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| Mainframe computers |
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| Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters |
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| Cell sorters |
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| Flow cytometers |
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| Mass spectrometers |
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| Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes |
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| Computerized axial tomography CAT scan equipment |
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| Medical imaging wet darkroom or daylight processors |
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| Automatic X ray film developers |
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| Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners |
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| Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment |
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| Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI microscopes |
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| Medical positron emission tomography PET units |
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| Positron emission technology PET equipment |
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| Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies |
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| Darkroom equipment |
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| Microcentrifuges |
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| Microplate readers |
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| Microscope slides |
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| Microtomes |
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| Cryocut microtomes |
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| Cryostat tissue microtomes |
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| Ultramicrotomes |
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| Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators |
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| Linear accelerators |
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| Multipurpose or general test tubes |
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| Test tubes |
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| Notebook computers |
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| Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers |
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| Liquid Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment |
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| Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes |
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| Solid-state NMR equipment |
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| Optical beamsplitters |
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| Dichroic beamsplitters |
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| Orbital shakers |
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| Orbital shaking water baths |
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| Shaking waterbaths |
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| Osmometers |
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| Basic vapor pressure osmometers |
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| Paramagnetic susceptibility analyzers |
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| Microsusceptometers |
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| Pasteur or transfer pipettes |
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| Pasteur pipettes |
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| Personal computers |
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| pH meters |
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| Microphysiometers |
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| Photo attachments for microscopes |
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| Charge-coupled device CCD cameras |
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| Piezo electric crystals |
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| Magnetic piconewton-force transducers |
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| Plotter printers |
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| Plotters |
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| Polarimeters |
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| Spectropolarimeters |
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| Polarizing microscopes |
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| Brewster angle microscopes |
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| Pressure indicators |
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| Langmuir balances |
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| Protein analyzers |
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| Protein sequencers |
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| Radiobiological effect microdosimeters |
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| Dosimeters |
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| Reactors or fermenters or digesters |
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| Fermenters |
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| High-pressure high-temperature reactors |
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| Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers |
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| Growth chambers |
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| Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges |
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| Refrigerated centrifuges |
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| Rheometers |
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| Robotic or automated liquid handling systems |
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| Automatic pipetters |
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| Liquid handling robots |
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| Safety hoods |
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| Biological safety hoods |
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| Scanners |
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| Scanning electron microscopes |
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| Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes |
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| Confocal microscopes |
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| Near-field light microscopes |
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| Scanning laser microscopes |
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| Scanning probe microscopes |
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| Atomic force microscopes |
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| Nanoscopes |
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| Shaking incubators |
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| Shaker incubators |
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| Signal conditioners |
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| Power amplifiers |
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| Signal generators |
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| Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters |
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| Fluorescence spectroscopes |
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| Spectrofluorimeters |
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| Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes |
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| Spectrometers |
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| Circular dichroism spectroscopes |
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| Dual wavelength spectroscopes |
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| Electron paramagnetic resonance EPR spectrometers |
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| Electron spin resonance spectroscopes |
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| Laser induced temperature jump nanosecond relaxation spectrometer systems |
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| Mossbauer spectroscopes |
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| Raman difference spectrometers |
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| Spectrophotometers |
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| Stopped-flow spectrophotometers |
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| Steam autoclaves or sterilizers |
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| Autoclaves |
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| Tissue processors |
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