jaksichj wrote " Welcome to BAUT Dave,

This is a very good question and I hope others can only add to my distinctions---

As a Bachelors Chemist/technician -- I have worked on research and with engineers on projects in industry.

As a Research "Chemist-technician"--I was asked to "explore" aspects of nature that could be exploited for profit. Once the discovery was made and data recorded and conclusion verified. The finding was passed onto Development "Chemists" who are assigned to see if the discovery could be further developed --or scaled to a proportions of chemical plant proportions. Afterward, if successful, research engineers try to further develop the "discovery" to scales of "pilot plant" proportions...."



Sorry about that previous post-- but I thought that it might give you some intuitive feel for some of the divisions in a field like chemistry...

Again...Welcome to BAUT....

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