Glossary
Chemical Technician Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential chemical technician terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key chemical technician vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in chemical technician training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Aliquot
- A measured portion.
- Calibration curve
- A graph used to calculate results.
- Certificate of analysis
- Document of test results.
- Chromatography
- Separating mixtures.
- Fume hood
- Ventilated workspace.
- GMP
- Good Manufacturing Practice.
- LIMS
- Lab information management system.
- Molarity
- Concentration in moles per liter.
- Out-of-spec
- A result outside limits.
- pH
- Acidity or alkalinity.
- SDS
- Safety Data Sheet.
- Specification
- Required limits.
- Spectroscopy
- Measuring light interaction.
- Standard
- A sample of known concentration.
- Titration
- Measuring concentration by reaction.
Practice these terms
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