Laboratory staff assistants are trained to use data and observations of routine product analyses performed by experienced analytical chemists when analyzing compounds for potential toxic hazards. Commercial products are used as examples in teaching the analytical approach to unknowns

Grillo, J. P.

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Product Identification Techniques Used as Training

Aids for Analytical Chemists 
Laboratory staff assistants who are required to 
analyze compounds for potential toxic hazards are 
given a program of instruction aimed at broadening 
their approach to the analysis of an unknown. In a 
laboratory equipped with an emission spectrograph, 
a gas chromatograph, infrared and ultraviolet spectro-
photometers, and an atomic absorption spectropho-
tometer, an assistant often lacks the feeling, based on 
experience, that using a particular instrument rather 
than another would give more meaningful information.
Analytical Chemists, by J. P. Grillo, provides infor-
mation on the training program, including analysis 
training procedures, sample problems, worksheets, 
and a bibliography of analytical references used. 
Notes: 
1. These procedures could be adapted for use in any 
analytical chemistry laboratory, including hospital 
labs and poison control centers. They would also 
give university chemistry curriculum directors an 
idea of the requirements their graduates are likely 
to encounter. 
2. This report is available from: 
Sandia Office of Industrial Cooperation, 
Org. 3416 
Sandia Laboratories 
Post Office Box 5800 
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87115 
Reference: B68-10373 
Patent status: 
No patent action is contemplated by AEC or 
NASA.
Source: John P. Grille 
(SAN-10025) 
. The training program, therefore, is based on data and 
observations gathered in routine product analyses per-
formed by experienced analytical chemists. In addi-
tion, commercial products are used as examples in 
teaching the analytical approach to unknowns. 
The result of these training sessions conducted in 
the laboratory is increased confidence in the assistant's 
ability to cope with samples as received. He learns 
to identify reaction "signatures" that denote typical 
classes of compounds. He learns to disregard irrele-
vant data, and to select judiciously the tests and tools 
necessary for accurate analysis. 
Sandia Laboratories report SC-M-67-2939, The 
Use of Product Identification as a Training Aid for
Category 03 
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Product identification techniques used as training aids for analytical chemists

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