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About NanalysisFor you
SourcesHow 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.
Where it fits
Pick your class- Physics 30 · Fields and electromagnetic radiation: an NMR extension
How it works
Schematic · not to scale
From sample to a spectrum
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.
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.
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Place a suitable sample in the instrument’s magnetic field. NMR concerns the magnetic behaviour of particular atomic nuclei.
Our explanation - 2
A radiofrequency pulse changes the sample’s magnetization. The instrument records a time-varying signal.
Our explanation - 3
Processing converts the recorded signal into a spectrum. The pattern can provide information about chemical environments.
Our explanation - 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.
Our explanation
Who does this work
Role
Instrument development and testing
Help build and check the equipment that produces measurements. Instrument work joins hardware, software and experiments rather than treating a reading as automatically correct.
What might you actually do?
Investigate
Check performance using a known reference.
Test and compare
Investigate drift, noise or inconsistent readings.
Explain and improve
Document tests so later users know what the instrument can establish.
Typical of this kind of work in general. Not a description of any one person’s job at Nanalysis.
- Often works with
- Scientists, electronics specialists and software developers
- Classroom connection
- Measurement uncertainty is part of using a tool responsibly.
Related job postings
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How to prepare
Electrical Engineering Technology
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Study circuits, electrical power and controls with practical laboratory work.
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Why it connects to the work · our interpretation
Instrument development and testingSupports electrical testing and technical systems work. Measurement uncertainty is part of using a tool responsibly.
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Ask the class
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.
- 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)
- Who uses it
- Laboratories, researchers, educators and industrial users analysing materials.
- 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)
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.
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)Read each source’s date and scope: a documented role is not proof of a current vacancy or of where every position is based.
Reported as Nanalysis states it. Nanalysis has not reviewed or endorsed this page.
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.
Sources
- SAIT — Chemical Laboratory Technology(opens in a new tab)
- 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)
- Alberta Physics 20–30 performance standards(opens in a new tab)
- SAIT — Electrical Engineering Technology(opens in a new tab)
- SAIT — Software Development(opens in a new tab)
Organization claims are reported as the organization states them. Nanalysis has not reviewed or endorsed this page.
What we know, and how
| Type | Claim | How we know |
|---|---|---|
| work | 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.Source: Company, products and Calgary address; How the signal becomes a spectrum; Careers check | Organization-stated |
| 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; How the signal becomes a spectrum; Careers check | Organization-stated |
| course fit | Apply 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 standards | Editorial connection to verified course topics |
| limits | NMR 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 check | Scope of this example |
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