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How can magnets help identify what is in a sample?

Nanalysis · Calgary head office and instrument-development/manufacturing company; individual team assignments are not mapped to a specific vacancy.

Graphic-novel illustration. A scientist placing a sample tube into a benchtop NMR instrument beside a spectrum.

Where it fits

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  • Physics 30 · Fields and electromagnetic radiation: an NMR extension

How it works

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From sample to a spectrum

Conceptual sequence: Place the sample in a magnetic field. Apply a radio-frequency pulse. Record the response as a signal over time. Transform the signal into a spectrum to interpret.

  1. Place the sample in a magnetic field.

  2. Apply a radio-frequency pulse.

  3. Record the response as a signal over time.

  4. Transform the signal into a spectrum to interpret.

The signal and peaks are illustrative, not measured data. NMR is an extension beyond the required course treatment.

The lesson, in the real world

A chemical sample can produce a pattern we can interpret.

  1. 1

    Place a suitable sample in the instrument’s magnetic field. NMR concerns the magnetic behaviour of particular atomic nuclei.

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  2. 2

    A radiofrequency pulse changes the sample’s magnetization. The instrument records a time-varying signal.

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  3. 3

    Processing converts the recorded signal into a spectrum. The pattern can provide information about chemical environments.

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  4. 4

    Interpret the spectrum alongside reference information and sample conditions. A simplified pattern is not a photograph of a molecule or an automatic proof of identity.

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Who does this work

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Scientific applications

Connect an instrument to the question a user needs to answer. Applications work involves selecting a method, interpreting results and explaining limitations.

Work area · Application support is connected to the company’s instrument uses; duties below are editorial.General explanation, written by usSource: Company, products and Calgary address(opens in a new tab); How the signal becomes a spectrum(opens in a new tab); Careers check(opens in a new tab)

What might you actually do?

  • Investigate

    Choose a measurement approach for the sample.

  • Test and compare

    Compare outputs with reference information.

  • Explain and improve

    Explain what further tests would resolve ambiguity.

Typical of this kind of work in general. Not a description of any one person’s job at Nanalysis.

Often works with
Laboratory users, instrument engineers and researchers
Classroom connection
A pattern is evidence to interpret, not a label that proves an answer by itself.

Related job postings

Similar work at other employers in Calgary, AB, not openings at Nanalysis. These are live searches: results change daily and we have not checked them.

How to prepare

  • Chemical Laboratory Technology

    SAIT

  • Electrical Engineering Technology

    SAIT

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  • SAITDiplomaCalgary

    Chemical Laboratory Technology

    Practice chemical analysis, sample preparation and analytical instrumentation.

    About this route

    Check the provider’s current prerequisites and intake availability. This is a related learning route, not a hiring promise or an employer requirement.

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    Why it connects to the work · our interpretation

    Scientific applications

    Supports laboratory testing and reliable measurement. A pattern is evidence to interpret, not a label that proves an answer by itself.

  • SAITDiplomaCalgary

    Electrical Engineering Technology

    Study circuits, electrical power and controls with practical laboratory work.

    About this route

    Check the provider’s current prerequisites and intake availability. This is a related learning route, not a hiring promise or an employer requirement.

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    Why it connects to the work · our interpretation

    Scientific applications

    Supports electrical testing and technical systems work. A pattern is evidence to interpret, not a label that proves an answer by itself.

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What additional evidence would you want if two samples produced similar patterns?

Show two invented spectra with a shared peak and one different peak. Ask students what they can conclude, what they cannot conclude, and which reference measurement would help.

Mindset it shows

This is a pattern-and-evidence activity, not instruction in assigning real NMR spectra. Avoid describing the signal as X-rays or nuclear radiation.

About Nanalysis

A chemical sample can produce a pattern we can interpret.

Headquarters
Calgary head office and instrument-development/manufacturing company; individual team assignments are not mapped to a specific vacancy.
Source: Company, products and Calgary address(opens in a new tab); How the signal becomes a spectrum(opens in a new tab); Careers check(opens in a new tab)
Local connection
Calgary head office and instrument-development/manufacturing company; individual team assignments are not mapped to a specific vacancy.
Source: Company, products and Calgary address(opens in a new tab); How the signal becomes a spectrum(opens in a new tab); Careers check(opens in a new tab)
Team size
Not verified. We have not found a dated, sourced figure.
The problem
How can an instrument reveal information that cannot be obtained by looking at a sample?
Source: Company, products and Calgary address(opens in a new tab); How the signal becomes a spectrum(opens in a new tab); Careers check(opens in a new tab)
What they do
Benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance instruments and support for their applications.
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Who uses it
Laboratories, researchers, educators and industrial users analysing materials.
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Nanalysis develops and manufactures compact magnetic-resonance instruments and identifies its head office in Calgary. Its benchtop NMR products are used in areas including teaching, chemistry and food science. This example focuses on chemical analysis rather than medical imaging.

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Who does this work

Read each source’s date and scope: a documented role is not proof of a current vacancy or of where every position is based.

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Sources and course fit

Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Where it fits

  • Physics 30 · Fields and electromagnetic radiation: an NMR extension

Editorial mapping to published CBE course topics. Pending educator review. No outcome-code alignment is claimed.

Organization claims are reported as the organization states them. Nanalysis has not reviewed or endorsed this page.

What we know, and how
TypeClaimHow we know
workNanalysis develops and manufactures compact magnetic-resonance instruments and identifies its head office in Calgary. Its benchtop NMR products are used in areas including teaching, chemistry and food science. This example focuses on chemical analysis rather than medical imaging.Source: Company, products and Calgary address; How the signal becomes a spectrum; Careers checkOrganization-stated
local connectionCalgary head office and instrument-development/manufacturing company; individual team assignments are not mapped to a specific vacancy.Source: Company, products and Calgary address; How the signal becomes a spectrum; Careers checkOrganization-stated
course fitApply fields and electromagnetic-radiation ideas to measurement. Nuclear spin and Fourier transforms are extension material, not required high-school outcomes.Source: Alberta Physics 20–30 performance standardsEditorial connection to verified course topics
limitsNMR is an extension topic; do not imply high-school students must master spin physics. No specific current vacancy or research role’s entry requirements were verified.Source: Company, products and Calgary address; How the signal becomes a spectrum; Careers checkScope of this example

Solid green: the organization states it. Outlined: seen in a dated source. Dashed: our interpretation, not yet researched, or announced but not yet real.