| Acronym | Meaning |
| USPIO | Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide |
| LEES | Local Excess-electron State (a Mol.-crystal Wave Function) |
| RDF | Radial Distribution Function |
| PNA | Polynuclear Aromatic Compound(s) |
| ACP | Automatic Correlation Partitioning |
| PICT | Pollution-induced Community Tolerance |
| EPM | Electron Probe Microscopy |
| PACS | Physics And Astronomy Classification Scheme |
| RDS | Reflectance-difference Spectroscopy |
| WSSA | Weed Science Society Of America |