Comments on: What is taught to Chemistry students and on an average, what does your typical Chemist do? http://www.oaklandcolleges.net/science/what-is-taught-to-chemistry-students-and-on-an-average-what-does-your-typical-chemist-do-2 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rach http://www.oaklandcolleges.net/science/what-is-taught-to-chemistry-students-and-on-an-average-what-does-your-typical-chemist-do-2/comment-page-1#comment-2883 Rach Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:19:59 +0000 http://www.oaklandcolleges.net/science/what-is-taught-to-chemistry-students-and-on-an-average-what-does-your-typical-chemist-do-2#comment-2883 Chemistry students are taught about the fundamentals of matter, atoms, molecules, elements etc. How to make molecules, how to analyse them using spectroscopy/spectrometry/crystallography, how to predict properties of compounds based on the structure, all kinds of things really. There is analytical chemistry (snore), computational (even bigger snore), inorganic (aka crystal growing), organic, biological (aka pipetting), organometallic, supramolecular.. just to name a few. In Grad school you do specialise, in fact you become so very focused on a particular topic that you end up writing a book about it, and you hand it in and hope that you will never have to look at the book again for as long as you live. If you want to get into explosives you would probably be aiming for employment within a government organisation, research in explosives is no longer a huge priority for academic institutions, unsure of whether the private industry does much. I do hope you have low blood pressure cos a career in making things that might (at any moment) go bang and take your hand off is not for the faint hearted.<br><b>References : </b><br> Chemistry students are taught about the fundamentals of matter, atoms, molecules, elements etc. How to make molecules, how to analyse them using spectroscopy/spectrometry/crystallography, how to predict properties of compounds based on the structure, all kinds of things really.

There is analytical chemistry (snore), computational (even bigger snore), inorganic (aka crystal growing), organic, biological (aka pipetting), organometallic, supramolecular.. just to name a few.

In Grad school you do specialise, in fact you become so very focused on a particular topic that you end up writing a book about it, and you hand it in and hope that you will never have to look at the book again for as long as you live.

If you want to get into explosives you would probably be aiming for employment within a government organisation, research in explosives is no longer a huge priority for academic institutions, unsure of whether the private industry does much. I do hope you have low blood pressure cos a career in making things that might (at any moment) go bang and take your hand off is not for the faint hearted.
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]]> By: Pretty Funkin' Funny http://www.oaklandcolleges.net/science/what-is-taught-to-chemistry-students-and-on-an-average-what-does-your-typical-chemist-do-2/comment-page-1#comment-2882 Pretty Funkin' Funny Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:48:59 +0000 http://www.oaklandcolleges.net/science/what-is-taught-to-chemistry-students-and-on-an-average-what-does-your-typical-chemist-do-2#comment-2882 It depends if you want to do research. I just wanted to do Analytical Chemistry... Anyways, you'd have to ask your department on specializations as there are numerous fields you can get into.<br><b>References : </b><br> It depends if you want to do research. I just wanted to do Analytical Chemistry…

Anyways, you’d have to ask your department on specializations as there are numerous fields you can get into.
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