Glossary
Chemistry Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential chemistry professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key chemistry professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in chemistry professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- ACS
- American Chemical Society.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Chemical hygiene plan
- Lab safety rules.
- Lab report
- Written experiment summary.
- NMR
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Office hours
- Time set aside for students.
- Organic chemistry
- Chemistry of carbon compounds.
- Peer review
- Expert review of research.
- Sabbatical
- Paid leave for research.
- SDS
- Safety Data Sheet.
- Stoichiometry
- Quantities in reactions.
- Syllabus
- Course plan.
- Synthesis
- Making compounds.
- Tenure
- Permanent faculty status.
- Titration
- Measuring concentration.
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