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O*NET detailed work activityMix substances to create chemical solutions
Stays humanHands-on work
16 jobs18 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Prepare mixtures or solutions, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes.
- Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.
- Add or mix chemicals or ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
- Measure, weigh, or mix cleaning solutions, using measuring tanks, calibrated rods or suction tubes.
- Select shaping wheels for tasks, and mix and apply abrasives, bort, or polishing compounds.
- Measure and mix chemicals to prepare solutions for processing, according to formulas.
- Add or mix chemicals and ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
- Mix and add detergents, dyes, bleaches, starches, and other solutions and chemicals to clean, color, dry, or stiffen articles.
- Stir material with spoons or paddles to mix ingredients or allow even cooling and prevent coagulation.
- Mix and test solutions, and turn valves to fill tanks with solutions.
- Prepare etching chemicals according to formulas, diluting acid with water to obtain solutions of specified concentration.
- Mix and measure compounds, or weigh premixed compounds, and dump them into machine tubs, cavities, or molds.
- Mix bleaching agents with hot water in vats, and soak material until it is bleached.
- Mix ingredients according to specified procedures or formulas.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Measure, weigh, and mix chemical ingredients, according to specifications.
- Weigh and mix pelletized, granular, or powdered thermoplastic materials and coloring pigments.
- Measure ingredients and mix molding, casting material, or sealing compounds to prescribed consistencies, according to formulas.
- Measure and mix ingredients to prepare glue.